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

Thomas Mann Quotes

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

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

Steps, Toward, Subject

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

Think, Makes, Needs

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

Chance, Survive, No Chance

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, Reason

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

Triumph, Against, Poised

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

Peace, War, Cowardly

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. Thomas Mann

Always, Amount, Timelessness

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

Individual, Man Lives, Lives

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

Equality, Some, Extent

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

Writing, More, Other

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

Mood, Through, Hours

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, Tell, Keeping

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

Truth, Better, Than

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! Thomas Mann

Jewel, Human Eye, Carefully

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

Beginning, Bells, Passage

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. Thomas Mann

Think, Religious, Parcel

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

Find, Idea, Even

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed. Thomas Mann

Beautiful, Word, Begets

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, Birth, Original

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. Thomas Mann

Art, Always, Creativeness

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

Death, Disease, Expression

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

More, Suffer, Inferior

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

Dying, More, His

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body. Thomas Mann

Disease, More, Leaves

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

Desires, Only, Amiable

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

Which, German, Perversion

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