One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
THOMAS MANNHe probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
-
-
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
THOMAS MANN -
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
THOMAS MANN -
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
THOMAS MANN -
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
THOMAS MANN -
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
THOMAS MANN -
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
THOMAS MANN -
One 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 -
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANN -
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
THOMAS MANN -
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
THOMAS MANN -
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
THOMAS MANN -
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
THOMAS MANN -
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN -
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 -
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
THOMAS MANN