309 Quotes by Thomas Mann

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

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

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

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

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.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

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