Thomas mann

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

It could become much worse.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

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.

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

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.