Thomas Mann Quotes

The impulse to create beauty is rather rare in literary men . . .Far ahead of it comes the yearning to make money... and after the yearning to make money comes the yearning to make a noise.
- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
- Thomas Mann

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
- Thomas Mann

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
- Thomas Mann