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Famous Thomas Mann Quotes
“People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.”
Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
“Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”
Source: Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann
Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
Source: The magic mountain: Der Zauberberg
“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”
Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
“Speech is civilization itself.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.”
“For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.”
Source: Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck [and] Thomas Mann
“I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?”
Source: Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings
Source: The Magic Mountain
“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”
“Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.”
“If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.”
Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
Source: Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck [and] Thomas Mann
Source: The magic mountain: Der Zauberberg
Source: Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years
Source: Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings
Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”
Source: Death in Venice
Source: The Magic Mountain
“Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.”
Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
Source: The magic mountain: a novel
Source: The Magic Mountain
Source: Stories of a lifetime
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Source: The magic mountain: a novel
“He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.”
Source: The magic mountain: a novel
Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories