Defects Quote by Thomas Mann

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

— Thomas Mann

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

— Thomas Mann

“But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?”

— Thomas Mann

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

— Thomas Mann

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

— Thomas Mann

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

— Thomas Mann

“I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the…

— Thomas Mann

“...only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.”

— Thomas Mann

“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes,…

— Thomas Mann

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

— 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 sebaceous glands…

— Thomas Mann

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting…

— Thomas Mann