Thomas Mann Quotes & Quotations

Thomas Mann Quotes

» I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

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

» 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.

» Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.

» The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

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

» 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.

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

» 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.

» Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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