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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
