Thomas MannThinkers

Admiration is, by all odds, the most indispensable gift for self-improvement.

Death is a thing where interest therein is only another expression of interest in life.

Death is less one's own than it is the survivors' affair.

Democracy is the emancipation of the laymen.

Disease is a thing where all interest for it is only another expression of interest in life.

Education is atmosphere, nothing more.

A German is the eternal student, the eternal searcher, among the peoples of the earth.

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

Literature is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Mourning is not so much grief at not being able to call the dead back, as grief at not being able to want to do so.

Music is the half-articulate art, the dubious, the irresponsible, the insensible.

Music is a magic marriage between theology and the so diverting mathematics.