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

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  There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivoca

• Thomas Mann:

  If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

• Thomas Mann:

  An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech

• Thomas Mann:

  Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

• Thomas Mann:

  A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once

• Thomas Mann:

  Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

• Thomas Mann:

  The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

• Thomas Mann:

  What is uttered is finished and done with.

• Thomas Mann:

  A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

• Thomas Mann:

  It could become much worse.