All Thomas Mann Quotes
- Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most… Affirmation
- There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. Cleverness
- A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his… Absurd
- The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. Death
- It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality… Basic
- Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. Fate
- There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying… Equivocal
- An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names,… Always Show
- The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. Able
- What is uttered is finished and done with. Finished
- It could become much worse. Much
- Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. Cannot Survive
- Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. Called
- Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. Form
- For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our… Appointing
- Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body. Body
- Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. Always Implies
- Psycho-analyses, how disgusting. Analyses
- I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. Bearer
- For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed. Beautiful
- Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated. Amiable
- One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Clever
- Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. Bourgeoisie
- Hey I'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind I could call mine, that only I… Any
- Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state Bodily