Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Thomas Mann clarifycoolhour Change image and share on social
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. Thomas Mann equivocalgentlemaninsist 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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann deathdiseaseexpression Change image and share on social
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann cowardlyescapepeace Change image and share on social
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. Thomas Mann affairdieman Change image and share on social
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. Thomas Mann inferiorlovesuffer Change image and share on social
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. Thomas Mann admireanimalcompanion Change image and share on social
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. Thomas Mann emotionjoythink Change image and share on social
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. Thomas Mann consciouslycontemporaryepoch Change image and share on social
