Quotes by : Thomas Mann

Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function....

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

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also,....

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls....

One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system processes....

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive....

Cases of typhoid take the following course:When the fever is at its height, life calls out to the patient:....

Nature in her creative dreaming, dreamt the same thing both here and there, and if one spoke of imitation,....

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!....