Thomas Mann Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Thomas Mann:

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Thomas Mann

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

Thomas Mann

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

Thomas Mann

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke - it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

Thomas Mann

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

Thomas Mann

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

Thomas Mann

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Thomas Mann

Everything is politics.

Thomas Mann

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

Thomas Mann

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

Thomas Mann

Speech is civilization itself.

Thomas Mann

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

Thomas Mann

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Thomas Mann

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Thomas Mann

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

Thomas Mann

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

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

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

Thomas Mann

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

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

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Thomas Mann

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

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

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Thomas Mann

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

Thomas Mann

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Thomas Mann

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

Thomas Mann

It could become much worse.

Thomas Mann

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Thomas Mann

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

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.

Thomas Mann

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Thomas Mann

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thomas Mann

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

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.

Thomas Mann

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

Thomas Mann