309 Quotes by Thomas Mann

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

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