Positive For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive... Thomas Mann 19
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... Thomas Mann 13
Freedom It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom... Thomas Mann 14
Death All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann 22
Beauty 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... Thomas Mann 14
