Thomas Mann Quotes

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Thomas Mann



A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Thomas Mann



A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Thomas Mann



A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

Thomas Mann



A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Thomas Mann



A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann



All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann



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, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Thomas Mann



Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Thomas Mann



But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

Thomas Mann



Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Thomas Mann



Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Thomas Mann



Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Thomas Mann



Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thomas Mann



Everything is politics.

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.

Thomas Mann



For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Thomas Mann