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 1
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 0
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 0
Death All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann 0
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 0
