Quotes by : Thomas Mann

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man....

Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painful,....

For a brief moment I felt I was the older, the more mature."A gift of life," I responded, "if not to....

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness,....

Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied....

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with....

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent....

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance;....