Author of quotes: Thomas Mann. Page 1

When past and present merge what have long gravitated my life, now clothed in mystery. In verses it becomes more precious, in fact often we are concerned about.

Oh my, the humanity! His spiritual development has not kept pace with his technical progress, is far behind them.

The humility of great people, which often seems to us to be striking, largely explained by the fact that they, as a rule, know little of themselves, seldom think about the "I" and the right feel of ordinary people.

Art is the sacred torch, merciful, illuminating the frightening depths, all the shameful and sorrowful abyss of being; art is the divine flame, the world, in order that the redemptive compassion flashed and disappeared, along with all its shame and agony.

I protest against this libel on the modern state, slander, if it means the satanic enslavement of personality! The third time, protesting, protesting against a painful dilemma - presscente or medieval reaction - you want to impose on us. The meaning of democracy in individualistic amendment to the absolutism of the state, any state. Truth and justice - most precious jewels of personal morality, and even though they are in other cases in conflict with the interests of the state, gaining visibility to hostile forces, but in reality they pursue higher, I'm not afraid to say it: the spiritual good of the state! The Renaissance marked the beginning of the deification of the state! Woeful logic! Conquest - I deliberately emphasize the etymological sense of the word - the conquest of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment is, sir, the emancipation of the individual, human rights, freedom.

Freedom is the law of humanity, and not the anger and nihilism.

Duel is the last means, a return to a primitive state, only slightly mellowed some of the rules of chivalry, but mellowed very superficially. It remains the main point of the primitive physical combat, and every man, no matter how he was far from the natural beginning, if it comes to that, it has to be on top. And he may any day get into that position. Someone who is not able to defend its ideals by force of his personality, with his own hand, his blood, he is unworthy of it; the main thing was that with all the spirituality to be brave and courageous.

Evil helped speed up the perfection of the universe, without evil it would not be perfect, why the Lord allowed it because he was perfect and had much to perfection, - not in the sense of perfect goodness, but in the sense of full saturation, the heterogeneous wealth of existence. Angry become angrier, if there was as good and good as beautiful, if there was evil, perhaps even - although this is a controversial question, - that the evil there would be no evil, without good, and good would not be good, don't be evil.

Will not be misleading to say that the Lord permits evil for good; for good can only honor that by itself meets the idea of "good" and not set by comparison. Say what you will, explained Sleppy, and here inevitably arises the problem absolutely kind and lovely, good and beautiful out of touch with the evil and the ugly - the problem is whatever quality. Where there is no comparison, he continued, there is no scale, and there can be no question of heavy or light, big or small. But this angle is good and beautiful, having lost its essence, too, would be reduced to unqualified being, very similar to oblivion and did not towering over him.

Music and language, he insisted, is inseparable, in essence they are one, language is music, music is a language, and being separated, they always reference each other, copy each other, borrow each other's means of expression, substitute for each other. That music first can be a word that it anticipates and form words, he proved to me by the example of Beethoven, which show contemporaries were writing it with words. "What he writes in the book?" "He composes music". "But because he writes the words, not the notes"

Never heard bigger nonsense than the assertion that only comes from sick sick. Life is indiscriminate, and morality her spit. She is brave enough a product of disease, consumes, digests it, and worth it just to learn, this is health. The fact of aliveness, my friend, negates all the difference between illness and health. A whole crowd, a whole generation susceptible, perfectly healthy young men pounced on opus ill genius, a genius in the power of disease, admires and praises, praises, carries away, in its own way changes him, makes known culture...

For the cultural era in our days, in my opinion, that's a lot of talk about culture. Really? I'd like to know if the era has a culture, even know this word was used if it hovered there forever in the language of the people then? I personally naivety, unconsciousness, self-evidence seem to be essential characteristics of the phenomenon that we call culture.

The term more or less, as long as not erased our trail name is immortality.

Art is the spirit, and the spirit does not need to feel indebted to the society or community - in my opinion, he is obliged to avoid it for the sake of its freedom, its nobility. Art, "going to the people", identifying their needs with the needs of the crowd, a little man, of mediocrity, doomed to poverty, and to impute to him the responsibility, for example to prevent, in the interests of the state only such an art, which is clear to the little man means to impose the worst of handicraft and kill the spirit.