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Thomas Mann Quotes
«Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Respect
| Keywords:
decent, My Family, respectable
«Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
clarified, clarifies, clarifying, cools, maintained, mood, unaltered
«An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.»
«We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
anointed, anoints, free-thinking, free thought, modish, radical, skeptics, sow, The Absolute, The Seeds, to date, up-to-date
«Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Space,
Time
| Keywords:
bodily, engenders, forgetfulness, primitive, space like, surroundings, unattached
«I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Rest,
Sleep
| Keywords:
rested, Three Weeks, weeks
«Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.»
«The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
constraint, constraints, encounters, precise, presided