Thomas Mann Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.”

“The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.”

“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.”

“There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.”

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

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