Quotes By Thomas Mann
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
Thomas Mann
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
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
Thomas Mann
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas Mann
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Thomas Mann
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
Thomas Mann
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
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Thomas Mann