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Thomas Mann Quote: “Piety is the privatization of the world as the story of one’s self and one’s salvation, and without the, yes, sometimes offensive conviction that one is the object of God’s special, and indeed exclusive care, without the rearrangement that places oneself and one’s salvation at the center of all things, there is no piety – that is, in fact, what defines this very powerful virtue.”

251. “Piety is the privatization of the world as the story of one’s self and one’s salvation, and without the, yes, sometimes offensive conviction that one is the object of God’s special, and indeed exclusive care, without the rearrangement that places oneself and one’s salvation at the center of all things, there is no piety – that is, in fact, what defines this very powerful virtue.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the powers of darkness and ugliness.”

252. “I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the powers of darkness and ugliness.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “For he was by nature and temperament passive, could sit without occupation hours on end, and loved, as we know, to see time spacious before him.”

253. “For he was by nature and temperament passive, could sit without occupation hours on end, and loved, as we know, to see time spacious before him.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Children of sin are we all. But to me it often seems as though a contradiction were in the world between sinfulness and high courage, between the wretchedness of the flesh and its pride. If it be corrupt, how then can it gaze free and bold and brace itself to such a noble gait that it fills with pride even the beholder? The spirit is ware of our unworth, yet unconcerned with its knowledge Nature considers herself worthy.”

254. “Children of sin are we all. But to me it often seems as though a contradiction were in the world between sinfulness and high courage, between the wretchedness of the flesh and its pride. If it be corrupt, how then can it gaze free and bold and brace itself to such a noble gait that it fills with pride even the beholder? The spirit is ware of our unworth, yet unconcerned with its knowledge Nature considers herself worthy.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “I know from life and from history something you have not thought of: often the outward, visible, material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has already set in. The outer manifestations take time – like the light of that start up there which may in reality already be quenched when it looks to us to be shining at its brightest.”

255. “I know from life and from history something you have not thought of: often the outward, visible, material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has already set in. The outer manifestations take time – like the light of that start up there which may in reality already be quenched when it looks to us to be shining at its brightest.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “He was more beautiful than words can say, and Aschenbach felt painfully, as he had often done, that words are able to praise physical beauty but not to reproduce it.”

256. “He was more beautiful than words can say, and Aschenbach felt painfully, as he had often done, that words are able to praise physical beauty but not to reproduce it.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “The capacity for self-surrender, he said, for becoming a tool, for the most unconditional and utter self-abnegation, was but the reverse side of that other power to will and to command. Commanding and obeying formed together one single principle, one indissoluble unity; he who knew how to obey knew also how to command, and conversely; the one idea was comprehended in the other, as people and leader were comprehended in one another.”

257. “The capacity for self-surrender, he said, for becoming a tool, for the most unconditional and utter self-abnegation, was but the reverse side of that other power to will and to command. Commanding and obeying formed together one single principle, one indissoluble unity; he who knew how to obey knew also how to command, and conversely; the one idea was comprehended in the other, as people and leader were comprehended in one another.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Spain was not a lack of form, but an excess of form, death as form, so to speak – not death as dissolution, but death as something austere, black, elegant, and bloody, the Inquisition, starched ruffs, Loyola, the Escorial.”

258. “Spain was not a lack of form, but an excess of form, death as form, so to speak – not death as dissolution, but death as something austere, black, elegant, and bloody, the Inquisition, starched ruffs, Loyola, the Escorial.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Let no one tell me nothing is being communicated here! For the message to be inaccessible, and for one to immerse oneself in that contradiction – that also has its pleasure.”

259. “Let no one tell me nothing is being communicated here! For the message to be inaccessible, and for one to immerse oneself in that contradiction – that also has its pleasure.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “That regales,” he said. “Won’t you have more?”

260. “That regales,” he said. “Won’t you have more?”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “If only the soil can maintain life, then only the possession of it can confer freedom. Manual labourers and peasants, however honourable their position, if they possess no real property, can only be the property of those who do.”

261. “If only the soil can maintain life, then only the possession of it can confer freedom. Manual labourers and peasants, however honourable their position, if they possess no real property, can only be the property of those who do.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Once, when he lowered the book on his lap and blinked up at the blue, sunny sky, he said to himself: Now, that’s thirty years. Another ten or even twenty may still come, God knows. They will come along quiet and soundless and flow by like the ones that have already passed, and I look forward to them with peace in my heart.”

262. “Once, when he lowered the book on his lap and blinked up at the blue, sunny sky, he said to himself: Now, that’s thirty years. Another ten or even twenty may still come, God knows. They will come along quiet and soundless and flow by like the ones that have already passed, and I look forward to them with peace in my heart.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “It all comes to this: if you take care not to be a man of action, if you seek peace in solitude, you will find that life’s vicissitudes fall upon you from within and it is upon that stage you must prove yourself a hero or a fool.”

263. “It all comes to this: if you take care not to be a man of action, if you seek peace in solitude, you will find that life’s vicissitudes fall upon you from within and it is upon that stage you must prove yourself a hero or a fool.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “Cling to everything which to you is by nature and tradition holy as a son of the god like west.”

264. “Cling to everything which to you is by nature and tradition holy as a son of the god like west.”

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Thomas Mann Quote: “That music is ambiguity as a system. Take this note or this one. You can understand it like this or, again, like this, can perceive it as augmented from below or as diminished from above, and, being the sly fellow you are, you can make use of its duplicity just as you like.”

265. “That music is ambiguity as a system. Take this note or this one. You can understand it like this or, again, like this, can perceive it as augmented from below or as diminished from above, and, being the sly fellow you are, you can make use of its duplicity just as you like.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “In all of us is the wish to return to the has-been and repeat it, that if it were once unblest it may now be blessed.”

266. “In all of us is the wish to return to the has-been and repeat it, that if it were once unblest it may now be blessed.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “No one can understand with what heartfelt care this man, who had renounces the greatest happiness that life can offer us, knew how to enjoy the delights that were accessible to him. A springtime stroll through the green areas outside the town, the scent of a flower, the warbling of a bird – couldn’t we be thankful for such things?”

267. “No one can understand with what heartfelt care this man, who had renounces the greatest happiness that life can offer us, knew how to enjoy the delights that were accessible to him. A springtime stroll through the green areas outside the town, the scent of a flower, the warbling of a bird – couldn’t we be thankful for such things?”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “If I gave in to my nature, I’d lie in bed until afternoon, you can believe me. It’s actually hypocrisy for me to get up so early.”

268. “If I gave in to my nature, I’d lie in bed until afternoon, you can believe me. It’s actually hypocrisy for me to get up so early.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “God does all, yet has given us a conscience, and we become guilty before Him because we are guilty for Him. Man bears God’s guilt; and it would be no more than right if one day God were to make up His mind to bear our guilt. How He, the holy and blameless, could do that is hard to say. I should think He would need to become a man to that end.”

269. “God does all, yet has given us a conscience, and we become guilty before Him because we are guilty for Him. Man bears God’s guilt; and it would be no more than right if one day God were to make up His mind to bear our guilt. How He, the holy and blameless, could do that is hard to say. I should think He would need to become a man to that end.”

— Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Quote: “No, when it came to the ultimate and highest questions, there was no help from outside – no mediation, no absolution, no soothing consolation. Every man had to untangle the riddle on his own, had to work diligently at it, at hot speed, all by himself; before it was too late, he must either achieve some clear readiness for death, or die in despair.”

270. “No, when it came to the ultimate and highest questions, there was no help from outside – no mediation, no absolution, no soothing consolation. Every man had to untangle the riddle on his own, had to work diligently at it, at hot speed, all by himself; before it was too late, he must either achieve some clear readiness for death, or die in despair.”

— Thomas Mann

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