More - Thomas Mann Quotes

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

Thomas Mann

 Giving

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

 German Writer

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Thomas Mann

 German Writer Truth

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

 Death German Writer

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.

Thomas Mann

 Gentlemen German Writer

Middle and working-class families continue to struggle with stagnant wages, high gas, health care and college expenses and bleaker prospects for good jobs.

Thomas Mann

 Class

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate

Thomas Mann

 Fate

The problem will be finding floor time, especially in the Senate, where Supreme Court nominations, appropriations bills, (budget) reconciliation, and post-Katrina/Rita measures leave little time for anything else, ... Steroids are likely to carry over to next year.

Thomas Mann

 Senate

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator

Thomas Mann

 Creativity

Secret ballots are very different from public votes.

Thomas Mann