Thomas Mann Quotes

German - Writer June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955

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

Truth, Lie, Truth Is, Better, Useful

Everything is politics. - Thomas Mann

Everything is politics. Thomas Mann

Politics, Everything

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

Human Being, Human, Being, Socialist

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

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

Mastery, First, Steps, Order, Subject

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. Thomas Mann

Beauty, Path, You, Company, Us, Tell

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. Thomas Mann

Life, History, Ideas, Long, Intellectual

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

Goals, People, Think, Behavior, You

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

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

Love, Death, Stronger, Reason, Than

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

Writing, People, Difficult, More, Writer

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

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

Man, Dying, Survivor, More, Own, Affair

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

You, Find, Smell, Idea, Even, Everywhere

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, Endurance, Meet, More

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. Thomas Mann

Culture, You, Possessions, Bourgeoisie

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, Beginning, Ring, New, Year

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

Beauty, Poetry, Solitude, Birth, Us

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

Future, Humanity, Foundation, Important

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting. Thomas Mann

How, Disgusting

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

Man, Stupid, Healthy, Clever, Always

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, Man, Best, Mouth, Smoke

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, Democracy, Equality, Ideas, Two

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

Time, Mood, Through, Hours, Course

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, Well, Qualities

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

Peace, War, Problems, Escape, Only

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

Horse, Animals, Admire, Companion, Other

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

Suffering, Literature, Instinct, Union

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

World, Thought, Magic, Anything, Word

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