Quotes by Thomas Mann

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A great art is that which, outside of time and its own grandiose evolution within itself, is able to create a special history for itself in history.

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The only posthumous glory I wish for my work is that it can be said to affirm life, even though it knows death.

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Art is one of the many humanistic disciplines, all of which - philosophy, law, medicine, theology and even the natural sciences or technology - are in turn only different hypotheses, variations of one and those than different hypotheses, variations of one and the same sublime and interesting problems, to which we can never relate sufficiently varied, sufficiently nuanced, for she is man, creature, human.

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In the end, art - always - will remove the appearance of art.

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The future will see... an art without suffering, healthy in soul, devoid of solemnity, of sadness, but not of trust, an art per tu with humanity.

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Although the artist may remain throughout his life more attached, not to say more faithful, to his childhood than the man bent on the practical reality of life, although, it could be said that, unlike the latter, he remains constantly in the state of dreaminess, of the playful human purity of the child, yet his path, from the immaculate beginnings to the unpredictable later stages of his destiny, is infinitely wider, more adventurous, and, to a spectator, more jarring than that of the bourgeois some, and for the latter the thought that he was once a child is not nearly as tearful.

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Only art can give weight to a life that would otherwise be bored to death by convenience.

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Envy is an embarrassingly sinful feeling. We must be the conscious shapers of our own destiny and not dry up by staring blankly at what others are doing.

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The writer is a man who finds it harder to write than others.

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Talent is the ability to find your own destiny.

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A man is young or old according to how he feels himself.

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Man is weak: when he is applauded, something in him grows and expands, and because of the cold stillness he compresses.

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Man is a mystery, and at the foundation of humanity is always the admiration of this mystery.

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Keep track of every day, keep track of every lost minute!

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Time is the only thing about which greed is praiseworthy.

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The artist's view of the phenomena of inner and outer life differs from the usual one: the artist is colder and more passionate.

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In the name of goodness and love, man must not allow death to dominate his thoughts.

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Time is a precious gift, which is given to us to become, within it, smarter, better, more mature, more perfect.

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War is just a fearful escape from the problems of peacetime.

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Two world wars which favored barbarism and greed greatly lowered the general intellectual and moral level...

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Save your time! Guard any hour, any minute. Unsupervised, time will run like a lizard. Fill every moment with light by a worthy honest deed! Give it weight, value, light.

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Nothing is more unsanitary than life.

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It is not the gift of creative fiction that makes a poet, but the gift of inspiration.

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A gloved hand, a power and a great opportunity - this is the time, and whoever wants to do something must strive to fill his time conscientiously.

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I believe less in the effect of faith, than in that of goodness, which may easily exist without faith, and may even be a product of doubt.

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Our fear is a source of courage to our enemies.

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The good always comes late, it's always done late, when you can't really enjoy it anymore.

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A happy person stays put.

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Our desires and actions arise from certain difficult-to-determine needs of our nerves.

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In marriage, it is far from indifferent whose side has the... moral superiority.

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In life, something is not about how we say and express it, but about how we think and feel.

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A person does not lead a life that he does not dare to defend even from himself!

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All businessmen are scoundrels.

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You only gain the trust of the world if you are a householder and a family man.

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The bachelor life has something of an aftertaste that reminds me of isolation and narcissism.

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I have always been of the opinion that all people are equal and that there is no need for mediation between us and God.

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Not everyone who wears the long skirt and keeps saying "Lord! Lord" is always immaculate.

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One must give oneself.

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Before Jesus there is no rank and no distinction.

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Deaths tend to direct the mood of the soul towards otherworldly things.

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What suits one does not suit another.

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A person is as young or as old as they feel. And if the desired good comes, belatedly, with difficulty, it comes with all those petty, disturbing, annoying accompaniments, with all the dust of reality that the imagination did not count on and that irritates people.

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Luck and Success are within us. We have to hold them: strongly, deeply. As soon as something in here starts to relax, give in, get tired, everything around us immediately becomes free, resists, opposes, withdraws itself from our influence... Then one comes after another, defeat follows defeat, and the person is finished.

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Reason is not the most important thing in the world!

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Death is worthy of respect as the cradle of life, as the womb of renewal. But when separated from life, it becomes a ghost, a distorted image, or worse. Because death, as an independent spiritual power, is an extremely weak power, its sinful appeal is undoubtedly very great, but keeping with it just as undoubtedly means the most terrible perversion of the human spirit.

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The only healthy and noble, and also the only truly religious conception of death is if we consider and feel it as a component and accessory, a sacred condition of life, and do not separate it from it, do not set it in opposition to it, and do not play against it in an inferior way, because that would be the opposite of everything , which is healthy, noble, sensible and religious.

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When one cheers best, then, as if out of ugliness, one almost does well; but when he thinks of nothing bad, then the blow comes.

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Even pity is made impossible by meanness in this world.

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Only death can make others submit to our sufferings, and even the most miserable sufferings are exalted in death.

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What we are, what we know, what is ours, we feel poor, gray, insufficient and boring; that which we are not, that which we do not know, that which is not ours, we crave for it with envious desire, which turns into love in the fear that it might turn into hatred.

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From the window bars of his individuality, man stares hopelessly at the prison walls of external circumstances, until Death comes to call him home to freedom.

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If you sell your dog, you will see who will own it.

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Death still delivers justice.

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Happiness only lasts for a blink of an eye.

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In a certain state of mental depression, everything that annoys us under normal circumstances and causes a healthy sense of unworthiness in us, fills our soul with a dull, dull and silent hum.

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Celebrating the past is a beautiful thing, if one is in order with regard to the present and the future... It is pleasant to remember the ancestors, if one knows oneself to be one with them and knows oneself that one has always acted in their spirit.

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A man who stands firmly and without doubts in his vocation knows only his vocation, knows only about it, only values ​​it.

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The harshness of life and the relentless and sober flow of business life are reflections of the full, big Life.

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In life, we only get excited and angry about an offer when we don't feel completely sure about our opposition, and inwardly we are very tempted to make the plan our own.

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As soon as irony ceases to be a direct, classical tool of eloquence, which cannot be misunderstood for a single moment by the common sense, it immediately becomes lechery, a wheelbarrow of civilization, an impure flirtation with stagnation, unspirituality, and sin.

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Everything is just relativity on earth.

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My son, look after your business cheerfully during the day, but only do such things so that we can sleep peacefully at night.

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We can only ever get higher if we can already doubt ourselves.

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Transience creates time.

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In the unbroken monotony, even long durations shrink in a heartbreaking way; if one day is like another, then all like one day; and in the case of complete uniformity, even the longest life would feel short and fly away unnoticed.

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The blood mixture held extraordinary possibilities and extraordinary dangers. The result is this: a citizen who got lost in art, a bohemian who is tormented by homesickness for a good nursery, an artist with a bad conscience.

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Speech is civilization itself. Words, even contradictory ones, connect people. Silence isolates you.

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The outward, visible, tangible signs and symbols of fortune and prosperity only appear when things are actually going downhill.

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He who loves more falls short and is forced to suffer.

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If human reason wants it to be stronger than fate, then it is already stronger.

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Art is a heightened life. It makes you happy more deeply, it eats you up faster.

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In reality, time has no divisions, new snow, the beginning of a new year is not accompanied by thunder or trumpet blasts, and even at the dawn of a new century, only we humans shoot and ring bells.

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There is no "really" about time. If it feels long, it is long, if it feels short, then it is short, but no one knows how long or how short it really is. A minute is so long... that is, it takes as long as the second hand goes around once... actually the hand going around is the movement, spatial movement, right? Stop, let's be careful! So you measure time with space. But it's like measuring space with time... From Hamburg to Davos, it takes twenty hours, yes, by train. But on foot... how long does it take on foot? In your mind? In my mind for a split second.

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If someone has imagination, it does not mean that he can invent something, but that he can create something from existing things.

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He who confuses what is externally feasible with what is internally possible thinks wrongly.

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What we call grief is perhaps not the pain felt over the fact that our dead cannot return to life, but pain because we cannot wish for that.

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When a person is among strangers, he tries to show his best side, thinks about what he says and wants to please.

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Happiness is not mutual!

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How petty is vanity when one dyes one's hair.

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Brothers can also hate and despise each other. It happens, as horrible as it sounds. But people don't talk about it. Better to cover it up. It's better not to know about it.

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There will always be people who are entitled to this interest in themselves, such a penetrating observation of their feelings, poets who can express their privileged spiritual life surely and beautifully, and thereby enrich the emotional world of other people.

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He who is not raised by suffering remains a child forever.

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Apart from the fact that being in our boss's family is a pleasant honor in itself, one acquires a benevolent advocate in the wife of the principal, in the unlikely event that a mistake should be made in business, or the principal's recognition - he wouldn't be there.

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Man is taken by fate.

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We were not born for (...) what our short-sighted eyes see as our own, small, individual happiness, because we are not scattered, independent individuals existing on our own, but like the eyes of a chain, and the way we are, we would not be able to think of a series of them without those who were before us and showed us that way, themselves with rigor, neither looking to the right nor to the left, following the proven and respectable tradition.

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Although live speech has a more lively and direct effect, the advantage of the written word is that it can be calmly answered and formulated, that it remains, and when read over and over again in its well-considered and calculated form and order by its author, it can have the same effect every time.

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Wealth alone does not make you happy.

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We need to give our hearts time and keep our minds open to the advice of experienced people who take care of our luck with a smart plan.

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You can't wish a sheep to have five legs.

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There is fish every day, but there is no catch every day.

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Honest work gets its due reward.

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Better tomorrow than later.

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One must not describe or teach a truth that is directly opposed to the current order of things.

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Every time the philosophers and poets go beyond and set aside some truth, view or principle, then slowly comes a king who is just now getting there, who just now considers this to be the latest and greatest, and thinks that he must act accordingly. .. Surely this is how things are with the kingdom! Kings are not only great people, they are also very mediocre people, always a few stations behind.

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The state can be traced back to a social contract that deals with crime and is a protection against injustice, and in this we see the origin of monarchical power.

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The state, if not evil, is at any rate the creation of necessity and sinful imperfection.

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To engage in battle with the enemy, therefore to attack, is more and more worthy of respect than merely defending and resisting.

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Death is not a frightening terror, nor a mystery, but a clear, regular, physiologically necessary and acceptable phenomenon; it would be clear that if someone lingered longer than allowed in his view, it would be robbery of life.

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The experience of death must ultimately be the same as the experience of life, otherwise it is just a ghost game.

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Illness means an excessive emphasis on the physical element, it refers to and limits a person to their body, and thereby reduces human dignity, and even ultimately destroys it, as it reduces a person to a mere body.

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People quickly learn what they need internally.

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The child of civilization, who is alienated from unbridled nature from birth, feels its greatness much more than the hardened son of nature, who is dependent on it from a tender age and lives with it in a disappointing, confidential relationship. Emez hardly knows the reverent respect with which he raises his eyebrows, and which fundamentally determines his emotional relationship with nature, feeding a constant religious tremor and timid excitement in his soul.

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It is an uplifting bliss to be in light love contact with powers whose full embrace would destroy an earthly mortal.

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Fear is a prerequisite for courage.

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Life abhorred perfect accuracy, it suspected death in it.

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A person dreams not only from his soul, but I could say: anonymously and collectively, even if in his own way. The great soul of which you are a part sometimes dreams through you, in your way, of what it secretly always dreams of - youth, hope, happiness and peace... and its bloody feast!

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Every body with a truly educational purpose knew from the beginning what it was really about at all times and in all pedagogy: the absolute command, the iron-solid binding, discipline, sacrifice, the denial of the self, the violent suppression of individuality.

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The meaning and purpose of democracy is nothing but the individualistic correction of all kinds of state absolutism. Truth and justice are the crown jewels of individual morality, and if they come into conflict with the interests of the state, they can sometimes even appear as anti-state powers, when in fact they have in mind the state's higher, let's say: otherworldly good.

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The rebellion of the spirit against the natural can only be called respectable if and to the extent that it keeps the dignity and beauty of the person in mind, on the other hand, such a rebellion which, even if it is not desired, in any case entails its slowing down and dishonoring, cannot be called respectable in any way.

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Analysis is useful as an instrument of enlightenment and civilization, good insofar as it shakes foolish convictions, dissolves natural prejudices, and undermines authority, in other words, insofar as it liberates, refines, humanizes, and ripens servants for freedom. But it is bad, very bad, insofar as it paralyzes the power of crime, corrupts life at its roots, which it is unable to transform. Analysis is sometimes a very unpleasant thing, as unpleasant as death, because it actually belongs there... it is related to the grave and the suspicious anatomy of the grave.

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A joke is nothing more than a transparent cover-up for the hidden - that is, unhidden - delicacy.

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People do not feel time and the present as a gift, but as an obstacle, denying their value in themselves, annihilating them, skipping over them in their thoughts. Waiting, as they say, is boring, it stretches the time. In the same way, even more so, we can say that it shortens it, because it absorbs masses of time without experiencing them for themselves, making use of them. You could also say that the person who is waiting, the person who is just waiting, is similar to a glutton with a large intestine, whose digestive tract passes through the food en masse, without processing or utilizing its nutritional content. We could go on and say: just as undigested food does not make a person stronger, time spent waiting does not make him old. It is true that pure and uncompounded waiting rarely occurs in practice.

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In love, aesthetic value judgment does not come into play just as much as moral judgment.

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Where there is a lot of space, there is a lot of time (...). As land becomes more expensive in cities and it becomes impossible to waste space, time becomes more expensive (...) in the same proportion.

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Time is a gift from the gods, it is given to man to use, exploit, (...) in the service of the progress of humanity.

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Consciousness, as sensitivity to stimuli, undoubtedly awakens to a certain extent even at its lowest, most undeveloped stage of occurrence, the first occurrence of conscious processes cannot be linked to some point in the universal or individual history of consciousness, it is not possible to connect consciousness to the existence of a nervous system as a condition.

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Consciousness, self-awareness, is therefore one function of matter organized into life, not another, and if this function continues to increase, it eventually turns against its bearer, develops to the point where it seeks to explore and explain the phenomenon that created it, and life strives hopelessly and hopelessly through it. to self-knowledge, but this turning of nature into itself is ultimately doomed to failure, because nature cannot dissolve in its knowledge, life cannot ultimately see itself.

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Illness is a strained form of life.

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Love is nothing if not madness, if not folly and forbidden excursion into sin. Otherwise, it's just a pleasant banality, just to sing peaceful songs about on the plains.

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A person can never make a half-thought-out, general statement without completely betraying himself, imperceptibly investing his entire individuality into it, without somehow simulating the basic theme of his life, the main problem.

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Kings do not know irony, not even in the sense of a straightforward and classic device of eloquence, but in an even more complicated sense.

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He who knows the body, life, also knows death. Because those who are interested in death and disease are actually only expressing their interest in life.

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He loved to read, as if at the command of a deeper instinct, he was attracted to the letter and the spirit, he felt it as a weapon. But he never completely surrendered himself to a book, he never forgot in it, as happens when that one book is the only and most important to a person, like a separate little world, beyond which the gaze does not go, he closes himself in and sinks into it, that even the draw nourishment from its last letter. Books and magazines poured onto his table, he could buy all of them, they were piled up around him, and while he was reading, he was disturbed by the mass of those still to be read. But he bound the books. In pressed leather, bearing the handsome name of Siegmund Aarenhold, the books lined up there magnificently and smugly, weighing on his life like a weight: a pregnant treasure that could not be conquered.

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There are people who are not easy to live with, but who are impossible to give up.

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I can't help it, my world view is such that I look at life from the bright and lovable side rather than the ugly and brutal side.

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The crushing experiences of nine years taught me to doubt that the World fights against Evil with a pure and unbroken will. If you like, you can call this emigrant psychosis, or even disbelief. But first of all, there is obviously a difference between faith in Good and faith in the victory of Good on this Earth, especially if Good does not really know what it wants, while Evil does.

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There are misunderstandings in love, it can be said that misunderstandings are nowhere as common as in this field.

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Some people necessarily go astray because there is no real path for them.

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Unbelief is almost more important than belief. Belief also comes with a dose of unbelief.

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I don't have much faith, I don't even think much about faith, but much more about the goods that exist without faith and are much more the product of doubt.

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The king is always right... the highest person is above all reproach.

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Time is a precious gift, we were given it to become smarter, better, more mature and more perfect through it. Time itself is peace, while war is the rude rejection of time, the breaking out of time as a result of some kind of mindless impatience.

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It is wonderful to make a sacrifice, but it is bitter to be a victim.

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Separation is a stage, a long stage. The reunion: a short chapter, only a fragment.

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I believe that he is not a bad-hearted or pessimist, but a friend of life, who filters out the good and the gratifying from the phenomena of life, without closing his eyes to the backside, where many rough knots may be staring and many sane threads may twinkle.

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Living in memory is a matter of old age and rest after a day's work. To start one's youth like this is ready death.

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Time is needed. Time is graceless, unheroic, and kind, if we respect it and spend it serenely; it takes care in silence, bringing demonic intervention with it.

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I believe that God did not create us, did not give us life to give it up and allow ourselves to completely dissolve into another life, even if it is the most expensive and the most sublime. We live our own lives - not in a selfish way, and not in a way that we see others only as a means to it, but not selflessly either, but independently and from our own thinking, with a smart reconciliation of our duties to others and ourselves.

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To live and grow old is only the real thing, there is the opening of the thing. All heroism lies in endurance, in wanting to live and not die, and greatness is only in old age. A young person can be a flamethrower, but not a big one. Greatness is possible only with the power, enduring weight and spirit of old age. Power and spirit, this is old age and greatness.

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We only please people if we sing to them what they like to hear, what they understand easily and comfortably, then occasionally we can slip in something heavy, heavy, less pleasing.

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Art cannot thrive without diplomacy.

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Let the one who is absolutely right be outspoken and rude!

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When did a story's time-consuming fun or boring length depend on the space and time it occupies?

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Like time, space creates oblivion: but it does so in such a way that it detaches the person from his relationships, puts him in an original and free state, and even turns the pedant, the petty citizen, into a vagabond in the blink of an eye. They say that time is the water of Léthe; but foreign air is also a kind of drink, and if its effect is less thorough, it is faster.

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Man does not only live his individual life as a separate person, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his age and contemporaries.

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Naming, if not criticism, always means definition, i.e. insertion into the known and familiar.

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Only the sufferer can be the leader and savior of the sufferer.

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Words are the beauty of a person, only words make life worthy of a person.

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To write beautifully (...) is almost as much as to think beautifully, and a beautiful act is only one step away from that.

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What is man, and how easily he deceives his own conscience! How well he understands that even from the word of duty he hears the right to passion!

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Youth can do anything. It doesn't get used to it, but it takes root.

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There is nothing more painful than when our organic, animal part prevents us from serving reason.

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Order and overview is the beginning of rule, the enemy is truly terrifying until it is unknown.

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I have never seen a completely healthy person.

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Music wakes up time, it stimulates us to enjoy time to the fullest, in general: it wakes up, it stimulates... that's why it's moral. Art is moral insofar as it stimulates.

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Music is priceless as the ultimate inspiring tool, as a driving force upward and forward, when the spirit is prepared for its effect. But it has to be that literature precedes music. Music alone does not move the world forward.

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To be willing to perform exceptionally well beyond the generally required level at an age when the question "what for?" cannot give a satisfactory answer to this question: this requires either a degree of moral independence and directness that rarely occurs and can already be called heroic - or a robust vitality.

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All work is difficult that deserves the name work.

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Every journey is much longer when we do it for the first time than when we already know it.

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If someone is both stupid and sick, when these two come together, it is perhaps the saddest thing in the world.

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We can't extend our little finger to the devil so that he doesn't get our whole hand, or even the whole person.

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A soul without a body is as inhuman and monstrous as a body without a soul, otherwise the first is a rare exception and the second is a regular phenomenon.

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A person who lives as a sick person is only a body, that is inhuman and humiliating... in most cases no better than a dead body.

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A talented young person is not a blank page, no: rather, it is a page on which everything is already written with invisible chemical ink, the right as well as the wrong, and it is the job of the educator to develop the right as firmly as possible, but the wrong that tries to assert itself with professional influence once and always delete it.

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It's good to dream and plan freely under the open sky: precise work requires the protection of a room's ceiling.

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The debauchery of death is life, without it there would be no life, and in the middle is the state of Homo Dei, in the middle between debauchery and reason - just as his position is also in the middle between mystical community and Seleverdian individualism. And in this state, man interacts delicately, gallantly, and in a friendly, respectful way with his own kind, because only he, the man, is noble, and not the opposites. Man is the master of opposites, opposites exist only through him, and consequently man is superior to them. Nobler than death, too noble for death: this is the freedom of his mind. Nobler than life, too noble for life: this is the piety of his heart.

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Our death is, in truth, more the business of the survivors than ours; because whether we can quote it or not, from a psychological point of view, the wise man's words are completely valid: as long as we are there, there is no death, and when death is there, we are no longer there, so there is no real connection between us and death at all, nothing to do with us at most, the world and nature have something to do with it - which is why every living being looks at it very calmly, single-mindedly, irresponsibly and with unsuspecting selfishness.

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How strange is the shame of life and death of a created being: it hides away to die, because it feels that it cannot expect any kind of respect or mercy from nature outside of its suffering and dying - and rightfully so, since the flock of birds flying merrily not only does not respect its sick companion, but in its anger , stab him with his beak in contempt.

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No one would be able to tell much about death who would return from there; because one does not experience death. We come from darkness and we leave into darkness, we have experiences in between, but we do not experience the beginning and the end, birth and death, they do not have a subjective nature, they belong to the field of objective phenomena anyway, that's how we are.

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Time is an element of narrative as it is an element of life; it is inextricably linked to it, as space is to bodies. It is also an element of music, which measures and divides time, making it short, entertaining and valuable at the same time; in this respect, as we said, it is related to the narrative, which can also only be realized in the sequence, in the flow, and even if it tries to be completely present at every moment, it still needs time for its manifestation.

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The time element of music is only of one kind: a defined part of human, earthly time, into which it flows and inexpressibly ennobles and elevates it. The narrative, on the other hand, has two kinds of time: firstly, its own, musical, realistic time, which enables its course and appearance, and secondly, that of its content, and this time is perspective, namely to such a variable degree that this imaginary time of the narrative is approximately or it may coincide completely with his musical time, but it may also be at star distance from him.

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Time, which is an element of the narrative, can also be the subject of the narrative; and if it is an exaggeration to say that it is possible to "tell the story of time", then telling something about time is obviously not as impossible an undertaking as it seemed at first glance, and this kind of work can be modeled on the "period drawing" with the strange, dreamy name of "time drawing" could belong.

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In confusing circumstances, a person is more inclined to experience time greatly shortened than to overestimate it.

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Dangerous lack of conscience: not valuing time.

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Time - even if its subjective experientiality weakens or ceases - has an objective reality, it works, it "temporizes", it undergoes change.

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Laughter is the sparkle of the soul.

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Metaphysics is evil. For metaphysics is good for no other purpose than to numb the zeal which we should devote to the building of the temple of society.

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Death is a great power. The man takes off his hat and walks on tiptoe, leaning forward. He wears the dignified frilled collar of yesteryear around his neck, and one also dresses in strict black in his honor. Reason stands foolishly before him, because reason is nothing but virtue, but death is freedom, debauchery, formlessness and lust.

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Love resists death, only love is stronger than it, not reason. Only love suggests good thoughts, not reason. The form also comes only from love, affection and goodness: the form and morality of meaningful, friendly community, beautiful human coexistence - in the silent awareness of the bloody feast.

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Loyalty to death and the past is only greed, dark lust and anti-human hatred if it defines our thinking and our rule. In the name of goodness and love, one should not let death enter one's thoughts.

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God looks at the heart, not the rank, we all stand naked before God, the general as well as the private.

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Nothing disturbs the world more than the disproportion that exists between the speed of spirit and the immeasurable slowness, clumsiness, inertial force and moment of matter. Admittedly, this disproportion would be enough to forgive him even if he withdrew all his efforts of the spirit from reality, because in most cases he already long ago abhorred the fermenting substances that create the revolutions of reality. Yes, the dead spirit is more hateful to the living spirit than I am, a thing basalt, which at least does not come up with the claim that it is spirit and life. This kind of basalt is a remnant of old realities, which the spirit has left so far behind that it is no longer willing to connect the concept of reality with them at all... I say, this kind of basalt remains helplessly and with its dull, dead existence regrettably protects the tasteless from become aware of your tastelessness.

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The purpose and essence of an association is never contemplation, but organization in an absolute spirit.

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The sepulcher is the receptacle and totality of the hermetic, just like the container, the well-sealed crystal flask, in which the material is forced to undergo a final transformation and purification.

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What is tasteless is not necessarily harmless. Limitation is not without its dangers.

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Tolerance is a sin if it means tolerating evil.

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The there is the same as the here, the just is the same as the now and the future; time drowns in the immeasurable monotony of space; movement from point to point is no longer movement when sameness prevails, and where movement is no longer movement there is no time.

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Time is an illusion, its flow in cause and effect is only the result of a certain arrangement of our senses, and things actually exist in a still now.

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Happiness is when a person loves and steals the object of his love with some small, cunning approaches.

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The knowledge of the soul alone would make us inexorably melancholy if the joy of expression did not cheer us up.

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It seems that it is not possible to live spiritually out of will; not wanting to do something cannot permanently mean life content: not wanting something, and wanting nothing at all, so doing what is commanded, are perhaps too close to each other, so that the idea of ​​freedom does not get into a dogfight between them.

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There are secrets in the seemingly obvious world, and strange silences are hidden behind the spoken words.

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The world is full of spoken words only so that the silenced can hide under them, and the secret behind people and things is lost in their noise.

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The observations of a silent observer in solitude are more blurred and yet sharper than those of a social person, his thoughts are heavier, more peculiar, and there is always a breath of boo in them. Pictures, impressions that could be easily dealt with with a look, a laugh, an exchange of ideas, engage beyond measure, deepen in listening, gain significance, become an experience, an adventure, a feeling. Loneliness breeds originality, the boldly, astonishingly beautiful, the poem. But loneliness breeds the crooked, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.

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Then every artistic nature has an innate tendency to give justice to the injustice that creates beauty, and to strengthen it by favoring and worshiping aristocratic privileges.

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What a mysterious harmony legality must enter into with the individual in order for human beauty to emerge from it!

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To rest on perfection is the eternal desire of the one who strives for excellence; and is Nothing a variant of the Perfect?

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Every kind of worldly heroism, every martial spirit, including courtly poetry, was more or less openly opposed to the religious ideal, and with it to the hierarchy. Because all this was "worldliness" and a mob against the church, the nobility of the spirit represented by it.

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Over the centuries, the innovative spirit of the church manifested itself in the search for life-giving thought with inquisitional methods, killing it, suffocating it in the smoke of bonfires, and today, through its delegates, it trumpeted itself as having a revolutionary spirit, with the accusation that its aim is to destroy freedom, education and democracy with barbarism and replace it with a mob dictatorship.

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The church, as the embodiment of the religious and ascetic idea, is essentially far from being the patron and support of those who want to remain, i.e. secular education, the state legal order, but on the contrary, from the very beginning, it has written on its banner the most radical, upheaval revolution ; that everything that considers itself to be preserved, and that the soft-hearted, the cowards, the conservatives, the citizens try to preserve, i.e. the state and the family, secular art and science, have always remained standing in opposition to it, consciously or unconsciously, only in spite of the religious idea and the church above, since the church's innate aspiration and unbreakable goal is the dissolution of all existing secular order and the reshaping of society according to the model image of the ideal, communist God-state, the civitas Dei.

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Criticizing the means and forms of human cognition and questioning their validity would be an impossible, dishonorable and evil enterprise if it were ever combined with any other goal than to set a limit for the intellect, which it cannot cross without neglecting its real task.

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We best honor the memory of our dear dead by saying that the meaning, reason, and purpose of the judging and critical principle can only be one: the principle of duty, the order of life. Yes, when law-making wisdom critically set the limits of reason, it set up the banner of life on the same border, and made the service of this banner a military duty of man.

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It is probably a sin and a mark of inadequacy for one to indulge in refined pleasures without conforming to the simple, natural gifts of life, which are so great and holy.

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What has a format cannot be called a sinful passion. Guilty passion never has a format. Not even for refined pleasures.

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The art of grape production and pressing raised humanity from the state of rudeness and led it to civilization, and even today the grape-producing peoples are considered more civilized, or at least they consider themselves, than the people without wine, such as the Cimmerians, which is really remarkable. Because it means that civilization is not a matter of reason and well-articulated sobriety, but on the contrary, it has to do with enthusiasm, intoxication and a refreshed feeling.

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Every substance contains both life and death, every medicine and poison in one, pharmacology and toxicology are one and the same, poison heals a person, and what we believe to be the bearer of life, under certain circumstances, kills with a convulsive blow in the blink of an eye.

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The courage to learn and express: this is literature, humanity.

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What's interesting is always a little creepy.

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There is no young ardor that burns with such a wild fire, Like the sober one, when he kicks out of the harness.

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So the idea is something like three or four measures, of course, no more. Everything else is just a matter of persistence, patience and elaboration.

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Do you think there was ever an enjoyable work created without its creator tasting the life of the villain and the insane?

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Those who are friends with the tempter are always at odds with other people's emotions, and are always tempted to laugh when they cry and cry when they laugh.

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It often happens that life gives you something that comes about through death or illness, and it takes you to unexpected distances and heights.

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Time is the best, our true gift, and its measure is the hourglass: the narrow neck through which the bloody sand spins is so fine, its spinning is so hair-thin that for a long time the sand does not run out of the upper cavity at all, only at the very end , then yes, then it feels like it goes by very quickly, and it feels like it all went by quickly.

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The fool does not tremble at his brain fear either, rather he feels comfortable in its company and converses with it without embarrassment or trembling.

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The most refined, the proudest, who have never uttered a dirty word, under the influence of coercion will call out the most offensive.

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The artist is all understanding, and understanding is the most important thing in life; perhaps the gaiety of painters is also based on this, i.e. there is a serious and a cheerful type of understanding, and no one has yet decided which actually comes first. Perhaps the most suitable is the third type: calm understanding.

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A poem should not be too good to make a good song. Music is much better when its job is to gild mediocre lyrics.

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The ability not to want to hear about certain things, this ability that is very close to wisdom, or rather forms a part of wisdom, has unfortunately been lost from humanity, and ordinariness has taken the name of progress.

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Religion and ethics have nothing to do with each other only to the extent that the latter is a decomposition product of the former.

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Still, how much better (...) it is to instill confidence in people than to instill passion in them! How much better it is to be found "good" than to be "beautiful"!

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There is nothing by itself and without antecedent as the cause of itself, but everything originates and points back, always deeper, down to the primordial foundations, to the bottom and bottomlessness of the well of the past.

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The deeper we delve, the further we penetrate and grope into the underworld of the past, the initial foundations of humanity, its history, and its culture prove to be completely immeasurable, and no matter how far away from our yardstick we wind its twine, they always recede further and further into the bottomless.

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Laziness is the root of all sin.

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Where reason does not prevail, boldly intervene with a stick.

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The most interesting phenomena in life are probably always double-faced, looking into the past and the future, progressive and regressive at the same time. They share the ambiguity of all life.

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In the antithesis of body and spirit, the body is the evil, the diabolical principle, because the body is nature, and nature is opposed to the spirit, reason, I repeat! ...nature is evil, mystical and evil.

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Life is dying, no matter how beautiful it is. (...) It also stinks, I mean life. If we feel otherwise, we are biased.

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The moment you think you're done, everything starts all over again (...) once more, a hundred more times.

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It is not the interest of the other person that is decisive, but our own, that is, to create interest, which can only happen, but it happens without fail, if we ourselves are fundamentally interested in a subject, if we talk about it, willingly or not, to others we also involve them, as it were, we infect them with our interest, so we create an interest that did not exist until then, that was never suspected, which is worth much more than if we please the already existing one.

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Escaping from the thick of people entangles the fugitive in the thick of human life.

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What is freedom? Only what is characterless is free. What is characteristic is never free, but bound and determined, bearing the stamp of its origin.

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He who does not love wine, women and music wastes life.

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Sin consists in the enjoyment of freedom, that is, in the enjoyment of the possibility of crime, and this is included in creation itself.

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Evil is much more evil if Good also exists, Good is much more beautiful if there is Evil, and perhaps - this is debatable - Evil would not be evil if there was no Good, and Good would not be good without Evil.

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Where would the world go if maturity had the last word! Through our immaturity, we will gift humanity with many more innovations, many more revolutions!

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Arguing should always be done only before falling asleep, under the safe cover of the dream that awaits us. There is nothing more embarrassing than walking awake after a serious exchange of ideas!

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It means nothing to believe in ideals that objectify and exalt life, if this has no effect on the development of our individual lives, but is only meant for ceremonial occasions.

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Instinct is not afraid of even the most spiritual pride, (...) even the most superior, most restrained being is reluctant to pay its taxes to nature, and thus man can only hope that this humiliation to human, i.e. animal, is as gentle as possible according to God's will. , should take place in the most beautiful, most spiritually elevated form of loving devotion, wrapped in the robe of a cleansing feeling.

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Physically thin people, who in other respects feel marginalized and not appreciated enough, often seek satisfaction in racial self-awareness.

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Freedom always tends to dialectically turn into its opposite.

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How mad a man is not primarily for what he desires, but for the desire itself; (...) he strives not for sobriety, but for intoxication and lust, and he fears nothing more than being disappointed in his expectations, i.e. in his coveted deception.