Thomas Mann quotes and words of wisdom

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
Found in the topic Peace.

"A man"s dying is more the survivors" affair than his own."
Found in the topic Death.

"For the sake of goodness and love, Man shall let Death have No sovereignty over his thoughts."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth."
Found in the topic Lever.

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But it also gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
Found in the topic Alone.

"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them."
Found in the topic Opinion.

"Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact ? it is silence which isolates."
Found in the topic Contradict.

"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
Found in the topic Trust.

Interesting Quotes

Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.Cenotaph in Hiroshima

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.Jerome K Jerome