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Thomas Mann Quotes
German
-
Writer
June 6
, 1875 -
August 12
, 1955
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
,
New
,
Ring
,
Never
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
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
Man
,
Dying
,
Own
,
More
,
Survivor
,
Than
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
,
Without
,
Us
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Thomas Mann
Goals
,
People
,
Think
,
You
,
Behavior
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann
Love
,
Death
,
Stronger
,
Reason
,
Than
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
War
,
Peace
,
Problems
,
Escape
,
Only
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
Man
,
Stupid
,
Clever
,
Healthy
,
Idea
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
Life
,
Death
,
Expression
,
Only
,
Disease
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
Thomas Mann
Life
,
Die
,
Order
,
Creator
,
Must
,
Utterly
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Thomas Mann
First
,
Steps
,
Order
,
Mastery
,
Subject
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Thomas Mann
Truth
,
Lie
,
Truth Is
,
Better
,
Than
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
,
Man
,
Smoke
,
Understand
Everything is politics.
Thomas Mann
Politics
,
Everything
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
,
Democracy
,
Society
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
Thomas Mann
Life
,
Foundation
,
Out
,
Myth
,
Timeless
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
Man
,
More
,
Than
,
Mental
,
He
,
Intense
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann
Fight
,
Chance
,
Survive
,
Opinions
,
Cannot
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Thomas Mann
Miserable
,
Out
,
Romanticism
,
Level
,
Mass
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
Thomas Mann
Only
,
He
,
Who
,
Desires
,
Amiable
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
Thomas Mann
Culture
,
You
,
Possessions
,
Bourgeoisie
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
,
Meet
,
Aggression
,
More
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
People
,
Writing
,
Difficult
,
More
,
Than
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Thomas Mann
Human
,
Human Being
,
Being
,
Reasonable
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
,
Man
,
Personal
,
Only
,
Individual
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
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