Thomas Mann Quotes

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Thomas Mann

Truth, Lie, Useful

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

Time, Fire, Off

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

Positive, Simple, Against

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

War, Peace, Problems

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

Writing, Difficult, Somebody

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Thomas Mann

Sense, Makes, Behavior

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
Thomas Mann

Life, Love, Happy

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
Thomas Mann

Life, Die, Order

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Thomas Mann

Human, Reasonable, Socialist

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann

Once, Less, Mental

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
Thomas Mann

Dying, Affair, Survivor

Everything is politics.
Thomas Mann

Politics, Everything

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Thomas Mann

Loves, Suffer, Inferior

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

Life, Good, Best

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann

Time, Through, Quite

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Thomas Mann

Love, Sometimes, Reason

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Thomas Mann

Great, Truth, Whose

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Thomas Mann

Love, Death, Thoughts

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Thomas Mann

Sleep, End, Three

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
Thomas Mann

Life, Personal, Lives

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann

Life, Death, Another

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Thomas Mann

Horse, Admire, Companion

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
Thomas Mann

Thought, Word, Magic

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Thomas Mann

Find, Idea, Smell

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas Mann

Freedom, Equality, Society

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Writer

Born: June 6, 1875

Died: August 12, 1955

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