#Thomas mann quote

[daweyt]

Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.

[amicus-noctis]

“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.�� ― Thomas Mann

Painting: La Repubblica-Firenze – Francesco Chiacchio (2010/12)

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death." - Thomas Mann

[philosophors]

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”

— Thomas Mann, “The Magic Mountain”

[quotelr]

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

[wayti-blog]

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

― Thomas Mann

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

this doesn’t even have anything to do with the actual text but it’s fucking hilarious. that “pardon” wasn’t in the original! they inserted it in the translation mid-sentence! some british translator in the 1930s translated this entire bisexual-ass book and the thing he clutched his pearls about was the mention of stomachs

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Der Mensch lebt nicht nur sein persönliches Leben als Einzelwesen, sondern, bewußt oder unbewußt, auch das seiner Epoche oder Zeitgenossenschaft.

A human lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

—Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg ch ii (1924). In his introduction to Der Zauberberg for students at Princeton University, presented in 1939, Mann cited this sentence—which derives directly from a philosophical lecture of Friedrich Schiller, as key to understanding the essential purpose and structure of his novel. Happy Zauberberg centennial.

[Robert Scott Horton]

[eine-wie-wir]

Don't trust your brain, if you want to know what you look like, just ask me and ill tell you.

- Parachute // 2024

[nobeerreviews]

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

-- Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

(Bucharest, Romania)

[words-of-wisdom-found]

[dracallyart]

“Love is always simply itself, both as a subtle affirmation of life and as the highest passion; love is our sympathy with organic life, the touchingly lustful embrace of what is destined to decay.”

Got very inspired to draw Crowsoon indulging one another in their affections after reading this quote, I really am thinking of them constantly (and maybe got a bit cheeky with the first sketch hopefully will try to post the rest of it once I fix the rest!).

I enjoy them,,, a lot, they're oh so fucked up from the world but in love 😌

[polishchuk]

The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion.

His yearning for new and faraway places, his desire for freedom, relief and oblivion was as he admitted to himself, an urge to flee-an urge to get away from his work, from the everyday site of a cold, rigid, and passionate servitude.

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

' A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. "

- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

[litandlifequotes]

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

— Thomas Mann 

[onenakedfarmer]

THOMAS MANN Doctor Faustus

"With a people like ours,” I said, “the psychological is always the primary and really motivating factor; political action is of the second order, reflex, expression, instrument."