Thomas Mann Quotes and Quotations
Speech is civilization itself.
Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
What the collective age wants, allows and approves, is the perpetual holiday from the self.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.