Cleverness Quote by Thomas Mann

“Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.” quote by Thomas Mann — Download Open image

“Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”

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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

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“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.”

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“But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?”

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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

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“I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the…

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“...only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.”

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“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes,…

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“The average man thinks that a little falseness goes with beauty.”

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“A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands…

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