Author: Thomas Mann

Quotes

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

- 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

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

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

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

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

- Thomas Mann

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

- Thomas Mann

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

- 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

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