Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
- Thomas Mann
More Quotes By Thomas Mann
- A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
- Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with...
- A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once...
- For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which...
- Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
- Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to...
- Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
- Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also,...
- Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
- War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
- In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we...
- If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an...
- A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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