Thomas Mann

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#mastery #order #simplification #steps #subject

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#how

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#decent #die #family #heard #i

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#get #had #i #need #rest

Speech is civilization itself. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#itself #speech

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#dwelling #edifice #foundation #freer #freudian

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#life #only #parcel #part #religious

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#being #consists #idea #make #out

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#emotion #joy #thought #wholly #writer

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#far #gentlemen #going #her #i