Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. Thomas Mann
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. Thomas Mann
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. Thomas Mann
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary. Thomas Mann
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. Thomas Mann
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? Thomas Mann
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Thomas Mann
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Thomas Mann
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. Thomas Mann
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.Max Muller
What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature? Max Muller
I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood. Max Muller
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.Max Muller