I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I dont know where I would be without it. – Thomas Mann
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. – Thomas Mann
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. – Thomas Mann
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown. – Thomas Mann