Thomas Mann híres idézetei
Thomas Mann Idézetek az emberekről
Ez az, amit szeretnétek? Ez a ti vágyatokat is kifejezi? Úgy hiszem. Elegetek van a halálból, a rombolásból, a káoszból, mégha korábban titokban talán vágytatok is rá. Rendet akartok és életet, egy új életrendet, bármilyen nehezen és sötéten is alakulnak majd a következő évek. /Rádióbeszéd, 1945. január 14./
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/
Thomas Mann idézetek
József és testvérei (1933-1943)
Thomas Mann: Idézetek angolul
“Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.”
Forrás: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 7
Kontextus: Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. In the early dawn, standing weapon in hand, neither of the combatants would be the same man as on the evening of the quarrel. They would be going through it, if at all, mechanically, in obedience to the demands of honour, not, as they would have at first, of their own free will, desire, and conviction; and such a denial of their actual selves in favour of their past ones, it must somehow be possible to prevent.
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
Változat: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Forrás: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives sweet thoughts. And from love and sweetness alone can form come: form and civilization.
Kontextus: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives kind thoughts.
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Forrás: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6, section, A Good Soldier as translated by Woods (1996), p. 506
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
As quoted in This I Believe (1954), by Edward R. Murrow, p. 16
Változat: War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Forrás: This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of One Hundred Thoughtful Men and Women
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
Forrás: The Magic Mountain
“He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.”
Forrás: The Magic Mountain
“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”
Forrás: The Magic Mountain
Forrás: Tonio Kröger (1903), Ch. 9, as translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan
Kontextus: I stand between two worlds, am at home in neither, and in consequence have rather a hard time of it. You artists call me a commoner, and commoners feel tempted to arrest me … I do not know which wounds me more bitterly. Commoners are stupid; but you worshippers of beauty who call me phlegmatic and without yearning, ought to reflect that there is an artistry so deep, so primordial and elemental, that no yearning seems to it sweeter and more worthy of tasting than that for the raptures of common-placeness.
“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”
Forrás: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6
“Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.”
Forrás: Doctor Faustus
“Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.”
Forrás: The Magic Mountain
“What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.”
Forrás: The Magic Mountain
Settembrini's view of literature, Ch. 4
The Magic Mountain (1924)
Forrás: Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 2, as translated by David Luke
Forrás: Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 3, as translated by David Luke