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

First, Steps, Order, Mastery, Subject

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

Truth, Lie, Truth Is, Better, Than

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, Year, Ring, Never

Everything is politics. - Thomas Mann

Everything is politics. Thomas Mann

Politics, Everything

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

Fight, Chance, Survive, Opinions, Cannot

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, Mouth

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, Qualities, Well

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

People, Writing, Difficult, More, Writer

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, Mental, Than, Intense, Which

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, Timeless, Myth, Out

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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, Triumph, Endurance

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

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed. Thomas Mann

Beautiful, Word, Begets, Deed

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 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, Survivor, Dying, Own, More, Than

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

More, Suffer, Who, He, Must, Inferior

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

Culture, You, Possessions, Bourgeoisie

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, Society, Democracy, Equality

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

Suffering, Literature, Union, Instinct

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. Thomas Mann

Love, Death, Man, Thoughts, Goodness

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, Absurd

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

Goals, People, Behavior, Think, You

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

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

Human, Human Being, Being, Should, Every

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

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

War, Peace, Problems, Escape, Only

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