black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Thomas Mann

The 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

Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
Often 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 MANN

Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
THOMAS MANN

Kind Love Reason Thinking
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
THOMAS MANN

Average Honor Word
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
THOMAS MANN

Difficult People Writing
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

Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
THOMAS MANN

History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
THOMAS MANN

Culture People Talk Technology
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
THOMAS MANN

Laughter Soul Sunshine
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANN

Better Harm Lying Truth
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
THOMAS MANN

Death Greatness Love Magic
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
THOMAS MANN

Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
THOMAS MANN

Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
THOMAS MANN

Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
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

Expedition Music People Thinking World
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANN

Human Reason Social

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Thomas Mann Quotes