Thomas Mann Germany and the Germans
Speech at the US Library of Congress (29 May 1945); published as "Germany and the Germans" ["Deutschland und die Deutschen"] in Die Neue Rundschau [Stockholm] (October 1945), p. 58, as translated by Helen T. Lowe-Porter
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
"Early Sorrow" in Tellers of Tales : 100 Short Stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany edited by William Somerset Maugham (1939), p. 884
“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Source: The Beloved Returns (1939), Ch. 7
Context: Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4
Context: Writing well was almost the same as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well. All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature, from the soul of human dignity, which was the moving spirit of both humanity and politics. Yes, they were all one, one and the same force, one and the same idea, and all of them could be comprehended in one single word... The word was — civilization!
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Reflections of a Non-Political Man [Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen] (1918)
Context: The important thing for me, then, is not the "work," but my life. Life is not the means for the achievement of an esthetic ideal of perfection; on the contrary, the work is an ethical symbol of life.
“Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
As quoted in The New York Times (18 June 1950); also in Thomas Mann: A Critical Study (1971) by R. J. Hollingdale, Ch. 2
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Source: Death in Venice and Other Tales
„Aki jobban szeret, az az alsóbbrendű, és szenvednie kell.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) Nobel-díjas német író
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) Nobel-díjas német író
Később pedig így folytatja: „De az istenért! Mit is jelent ez a változásokkal, főleg a lelkiekkel, szemben, melyek ilyen eseményekből szükségszerűen következnek. Hát nem kell az embernek hálásnak lennie a teljesen váratlanért, hogy ilyen nagy dolgokat megélhet? /Levél Heinrich Mann-nak/
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978) · Video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlqB13iJu2o <br class="br">Song lyrics
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
As quoted in a 1974 interview with Lester Bangs
“Excuse me while I light my spliff, good God I gotta take a lift.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978)
Song lyrics
“Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Zion Train
Uprising (1979)
“The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
"Bob Marley interview on Marijuana" (1979) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFbFOxbPJk from the Come A Long Way documentary, made for New Zealand TV show Good Day (1979) with reporter Dylan Taite
