Thomas Mann

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy…

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life…

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

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

Everything is politics…

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple…

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

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or…

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness…

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without…

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

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long…

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry…

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie…

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to…