Thomas Mann Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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