Thomas Mann

“La belleza engendra pudor”

— Thomas Mann

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

— Thomas Mann

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

— Thomas Mann

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

— Thomas Mann

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

— Thomas Mann

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

— Thomas Mann

“Čudno je to. Kad čoveka obuzme neka misao, onda je nalazi svuda, čak je i miriše u vetru.”

— Thomas Mann

“romping in pedagogically forbidden territory. They”

— Thomas Mann

“...i pojął z przerażeniem, że u kresu wszechrzeczy jest jedynie ciało, kły i pazury.”

— Thomas Mann

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too…

— Thomas Mann

“Man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking…

— Thomas Mann

“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and…

— Thomas Mann

“Frau Stöhr, however, who happened to be sitting not all that far from the trio, had apparently abandoned herself to the film;…

— Thomas Mann

“But admiration and sadness, admiration and worry, is not that almost a definition of love?" "There are people with whom it is…

— Thomas Mann

“A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the…

— Thomas Mann

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

— Thomas Mann

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on…

— Thomas Mann

Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the…

— Thomas Mann

“We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we…

— Thomas Mann

“Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that…

— Thomas Mann

“Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs,…

— Thomas Mann

“Richard Wagner once declared that civilization disappears before music like mist before the sun. he never dreamed that one day, for its…

— Thomas Mann

“(...) nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite…

— Thomas Mann

“…But sometimes a person begins with opinions and judgments and valid criticisms, but then things creep in that have nothing to do…

— Thomas Mann

“Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to…

— Thomas Mann

“His love of the sea had profound roots: the hardworking artist's desire to rest, his longing to get away from the demanding…

— Thomas Mann

“Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as…

— Thomas Mann

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must…

— Thomas Mann

“Nature in her creative dreaming, dreamt the same thing both here and there, and if one spoke of imitation, then certainly it…

— Thomas Mann

“Protestantism harbors within it certain elements – just as the Great Reformer himself harbored such elements within his personality. I am thinking…

— Thomas Mann

“For an important intellectual product to be immediately weighty, a deep relationship or concordance has to exist between the life of its…

— Thomas Mann

A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one…

— Thomas Mann

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed…

— Thomas Mann

“her fiery femininity triumphed over the eczema covering half her face. Hans”

— Thomas Mann

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

— Thomas Mann

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

— Thomas Mann

“How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice?”

— Thomas Mann

“The average man thinks that a little falseness goes with beauty.”

— Thomas Mann

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

— Thomas Mann