All Thomas Mann Quotes
- In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. Always Gives
- Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. Applied
- He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. All
- I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois… Arrest
- He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of… Considers
- Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe… Able
- If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that… Air
- Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. Distance
- And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved;… All
- Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage… Accepting
- It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his… Allegory
- (T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and… Always Assumed
- Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one? Called
- 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,… Day
- The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man;… Adventure
- What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. Compromise
- …What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror. Age
- Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily… Addressing
- Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It… Adventure
- There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from… Any
- Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it. Comfort
- To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is… Advances
- The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his… Absurd
- Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. Inspirational
- Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts. Inspirational