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

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

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

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

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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