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

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

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
Thomas Mann

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
Thomas Mann

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
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

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

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

It could become much worse.
Thomas Mann

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

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
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

One 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

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

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
Thomas Mann

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

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Thomas Mann

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

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.
Thomas Mann