01c. 1915 ADIf you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.Thomas Mann / quote ↗
03c. 1915 ADA human being who is first of all an invalid is all body therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.Thomas Mann / quote ↗
04c. 1915 ADHuman reason needs only to will more strongly than fate and she is fate.Thomas Mann / quote ↗
05c. 1915 ADWhat the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.Thomas Mann / quote ↗
07c. 1915 ADSpeech is civilization itself. The word even the most contradictory word preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.Thomas Mann / quote ↗
08c. 1915 ADThere is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.Thomas Mann / quote ↗
09c. 1915 ADIt 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 / quote ↗
10c. 1915 ADFor 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 / quote ↗
11c. 1915 ADFor I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.Thomas Mann / quote ↗
