Thomas Mann

“...niebo należy pozostawić wróblom.”

— Thomas Mann

Speech is civilization itself.

— Thomas Mann

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

— Thomas Mann

“Thoughts come c.early while one walks.”

— Thomas Mann

It could become much worse.

— Thomas Mann

What is uttered is finished and done with.

— Thomas Mann

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

— Thomas Mann

Everything is politics.

— Thomas Mann

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

— Thomas Mann

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

— Thomas Mann

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

— Thomas Mann

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

— Thomas Mann

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

— Thomas Mann

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

— Thomas Mann

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

— Thomas Mann

“...when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us”

— Thomas Mann

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.”

— Thomas Mann

“rather babble away and at least partially express something difficult than reproduce impeccable clichés”

— Thomas Mann

“A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his…

— Thomas Mann

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings –…

— 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

“Mere knowledge of human psychology would in itself infallibly make us despondent if we were not cheered and kept alert by the…

— Thomas Mann

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

— Thomas Mann

“He worked, not like a man who works that he may live; but as one who is bent on doing nothing but…

— Thomas Mann

And no less firmly do I hold that we shall one day recognize in Freud's life-work the cornerstone for the building of…

— Thomas Mann

“And for its part, what was life? Was it perhaps only an infectious disease of matter—just as the so-called spontaneous generation of…

— Thomas Mann

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the…

— Thomas Mann

“Ako je lutao, bilo je to zato, što za neke ljude uopšte nema pravog puta. Kad bi ga pitali, šta zapravo kani…

— Thomas Mann

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of…

— Thomas Mann

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself.…

— Thomas Mann

“Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every…

— Thomas Mann

“Analiza je dobra kao oruđe prosvećenosti i civilizacije, dobra, ukoliko ruši glupa ubeđenja, odstranjuje prirodne predrasude i podriva autoritet, dobra, drugim rečima,…

— Thomas Mann

“But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes…

— Thomas Mann

“O, čarobna organsko lepoto, koja se ne sastojiš ni iz uljane boje ni iz kamena, već iz materije žive i raspadljive, pune…

— Thomas Mann

“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and…

— Thomas Mann

“Az elégedetlenséget, igaz, már mint ifjú is a tehetség lényegének és legbelső valójának tekintette, és miatta zabolázta meg és hűtötte le az…

— Thomas Mann

Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity…

— Thomas Mann

To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and…

— Thomas Mann

“The observations and encounters of a man of solitude and few words are at once more nebulous and more intense than those…

— Thomas Mann