All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 5
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 3
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 3
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 3
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0