Thomas Mann Quotes, Thoughts and images

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

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

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

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

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Speech is civilization itself.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Everything is politics.