It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANNIt is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANNTechnology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
THOMAS MANNA 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 MANNHe 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 MANNTime cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
THOMAS MANNHe 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 MANNWhat a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
THOMAS MANNWhat pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
THOMAS MANNOne has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
THOMAS MANNForbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
THOMAS MANNEvery reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANNSolitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
THOMAS MANNIf you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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 MANNA great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
THOMAS MANNDistance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
THOMAS MANN