All Thomas Mann Quotes
- Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. Admiration
- If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. Even Smell
- It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Death
- I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now. Anyone
- One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Clever
- What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. Call
- What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! Another Human
- For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits… Flow
- Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to… Absurd
- 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… Built
- It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation;… Alarm
- No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. Inspirational
- Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. Absurd
- I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts… Best
- Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life. Art
- This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness;… Amazement
- Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy. Artist
- What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled… Absolutist
- 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… Betray
- Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! Both
- The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every… Absorbing
- The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those… All
- He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on… All
- We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting. Called
- Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. Achievement