Author: Thomas Mann

Quotes

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

- Thomas Mann

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

- Thomas Mann

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

- Thomas Mann

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

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

- Thomas Mann

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

- Thomas Mann

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

- Thomas Mann

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 guide.

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 guide.

- Thomas Mann

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

- Thomas Mann

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