Quotes from Thomas Mann

Demek ki insanlar?n bizim ac?m?za sayg? duymas?n? ölüm saÄŸl?yor, en hazin ac?lar bile ölümle sayg?nl?k kazan?yordu.

Sakykite, kas tai - meil? svetimai sužad?tinei, ir kod?l ta meil? gali tapti sunkiu ilgame?i? min?i? objektu? Jos padar? tai, kad man ? galv? ?m? smelktis vienas žodis, ir, kad ir kaip nor?dama, kad ir kaip drov?damasi, niekaip negal?jau juo atsikratyti. Tas žodis - parazitizmas...

N-are nici un fel de sens ca asasinul s? supravieÈ›uiasc? victimei. Ei sunt È™i vor r?mâne p?rtaÈ™i la o taina care-i leag? È™i-i va lega pe vecie, aÈ™a cum dou? fiinÈ›e nu o fac decât într-o alt? împrejurare unic? È™i asem?n?toare, una supunându-se, cealalt? acÈ›ionând. Destinele lor sunt de nedesp?rÈ›it.

If only the soil can maintain life, then only the possession of it can confer freedom. Manual labourers and peasants, however honourable their position, if they possess no real property, can only be the property of those who do.

No, when it came to the ultimate and highest questions, there was no help from outside - no mediation, no absolution, no soothing consolation. Every man had to untangle the riddle on his own, had to work diligently at it, at hot speed, all by himself; before it was too late, he must either achieve some clear readiness for death, or die in despair.

Speech is civilization itself.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

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.

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.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

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.

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives

Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But it also gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.