31 Quotations by Thomas Mann
- 1. A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
- 2. A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once m ...
- 3. A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- 4. A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- 5. All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
- 6. An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech ...
- 7. Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
- 8. Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
- 9. Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
- 10. For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does ...
- 11. Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
- 12. I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount ...
- 13. If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
- 14. It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent ...
- 15. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
- 16. No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
- 17. Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
- 18. Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
- 19. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous to poetry. But also, i ...
- 20. Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.
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