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
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. – 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
Ive been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama – then candidate Obama – going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest Ive seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of til death do we part. – Mitt Romney