Thomas Mann on Human Nature
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Thomas Mann, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Thomas Mann, entry #234688: "Six months at most after they get here, these young people — and they are mostly young who come — have lost every idea they had, except flirtation and temperature."
Attributed to Thomas Mann, entry #139674: "The invention of printing and the Reformation are and remain the two outstanding services of central Europe to the cause of humanity."
6 Quotes by Thomas Mann on Human Nature
"Six months at most after they get here, these young people — and they are mostly young who come — have lost every idea they had, except flirtation and temperature."
"The invention of printing and the Reformation are and remain the two outstanding services of central Europe to the cause of humanity."
"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."
"What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!"
"It is not good when people no longer believe in war. Pretty soon they no longer believe in many other things which they absolutely must believe in if they are to be decent men."
"There is both rhyme and reason in what I say, I have made a dream poem of humanity. I will cling to it. I will be good. I will let death have no mastery over my thoughts. For therein lies goodness and love of humankind, and in nothing else."