Thomas Mann Quotes (12 quotations)

1. A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. - Thomas Mann

2. A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. - Thomas Mann

3. A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann

4. A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann

5. All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. - Thomas Mann

6. Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. - Thomas Mann

7. For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence. - Thomas Mann

8. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. - Thomas Mann

9. Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. - Thomas Mann

10. Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. - Thomas Mann

11. 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

12. War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann

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