Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann More Quotes by Thomas Mann More Quotes From Thomas Mann He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented. Thomas Mann passion taste would-be It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life. Thomas Mann self men way What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. Thomas Mann eugenics long ideas 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. Thomas Mann humanity dwelling house Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. Thomas Mann socialist humans should Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! Thomas Mann love-and-death magic lying The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. Thomas Mann personality numbers book He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions. Thomas Mann made people world Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. Thomas Mann hysterical miserable levels …What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror. Thomas Mann demand age needs For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. Thomas Mann love men death Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. Thomas Mann horse doe animal I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had. Thomas Mann three sleep needs (T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut. Thomas Mann girl home book And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows. Thomas Mann arches beloved secret I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. Thomas Mann lust flesh math Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? Thomas Mann magic changed world The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life. Thomas Mann Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote. Thomas Mann A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
