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Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
— Thomas Mann
The experience of death must ultimately be the experience of life, or else it is only a wraith.
— Thomas Mann
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
— Thomas Mann
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
— Thomas Mann
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
— Thomas Mann
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
— Thomas E. Mann
With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.
— Thomas E. Mann
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
— Thomas Mann
What is uttered is finished and done with.
— Thomas Mann
For at the moment of the final division, the final miniaturization of matter, suddenly the whole cosmos opened up.
— Thomas Mann
He was simply not a "hero", which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.
— Thomas Mann
Thoughts come c.early while one walks.
— Thomas Mann
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
— Thomas Mann
Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought.
— Thomas Mann
It might well be that getting used to things up here was simply a matter of getting used to not getting used to them - but
— Thomas Mann
But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me and boredom is the coldest thing in the world. — Thomas Mann
A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.
— Thomas E. Mann
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
— Thomas Mann
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
— Thomas Mann
Aschenbach stated outright that nearly everything great owes its existence to "despites": despite misery
— Thomas Mann
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
— Thomas E. Mann
America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.
— Thomas E. Mann
What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
— Thomas Mann
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
— Thomas Mann
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
— Thomas Mann
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
— Thomas Mann
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.
— Thomas Mann
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
— Thomas Mann
Deep is the well of the past.
— Thomas Mann
It could become much worse.
— Thomas Mann
Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.
— Thomas E. Mann
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
— Thomas Mann
It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed.
— Thomas C. Mann
Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.
— Thomas E. Mann
Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.
— Thomas E. Mann
Beer soothes the upset soul.
— Thomas E. Mann
Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.
— Thomas E. Mann
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
— Thomas Mann
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
— Thomas Mann
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
— Thomas Mann
Who can understand the deeply bonded alloy of order and intemperance that is its foundation?
— Thomas Mann
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
— Thomas Mann
When life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us
— Thomas Mann
That was one of the advantages of his age, that he could be sure of his mastery in every moment.
— Thomas Mann
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. - Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers
— Kim Edwards
But what would be our readers' reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?
— Thomas Mann
Everything is politics.
— Thomas Mann
LCSH terms that are "orphans" in terms of their individual coverage are seldom orphans in terms of their relationships.
— Thomas Mann
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
— Thomas Mann
Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.
— Thomas E. Mann
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
— Thomas Mann
I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
— Thomas Mann
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
— Thomas Mann
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?
— Thomas Mann
He had ... regarded travel as a hygienic necessity, which had to be observed against will and inclination.
— Thomas Mann
For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
— Thomas Mann
