Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
THOMAS MANNTechnology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
THOMAS MANNA writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
THOMAS MANNHe who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
THOMAS MANNHe probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
THOMAS MANNI don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
THOMAS MANNThought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
THOMAS MANNAnimals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANNSolitude 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 MANNNo man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
THOMAS MANNTolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
THOMAS MANNInnate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
THOMAS MANNIt is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANNOften I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
THOMAS MANNBut my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
THOMAS MANNHas the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
THOMAS MANNThe Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
THOMAS MANN