I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally. Thomas Mann cigardeprivegood Change image and share on social
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. Thomas Mann basicconsidercontradictory share on social
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. Thomas Mann actadverseaggression Change image and share on social
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. Thomas Mann builddwelledifice Change image and share on social
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. Thomas Mann harmfullietruth Change image and share on social
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. Thomas Mann callgermanhistory Change image and share on social
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. Thomas Mann barbarismbreakgerman Change image and share on social
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. Thomas Mann absurdbeautybirth Change image and share on social
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. Thomas Mann chancefightopinion Change image and share on social
