Thomas Mann Quotes

You don't keep real confidence in the economy when you hear that the Social Security system is going broke. Americans weren't persuaded by his solution. So we got a crisis without a solution. - Thomas Mann (political Analyst)

Whether this has any long-term impact depends on whether a party or presidential candidate seizes the opportunity to elevate political reform as a campaign and governing issue. - Thomas Mann (political Analyst)

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

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back; as it is grief at not being able to want to do so. - Thomas Mann

What is uttered is finished and done with. - Thomas Mann

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! - Thomas Mann

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. - Thomas Mann

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann

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. - Thomas Mann

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

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