Thomas Mann Quotes

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
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.
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
It could become much worse.
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.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
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.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.
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Thomas Mann
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BirthDate
06 June, 1875
DeathDate
12 August, 1955
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Germany
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