Maxioms by Thomas Mann
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us read more
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be read more
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.