Quotes by Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
No, not of course at all—it is really all hocus-pocus. The days lengthen in the winter-time, and when the longest comes, — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
The diaries of opium-eaters record how, during the brief period of ecstasy, the drugged person's dreams have a temporal — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the origin — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn after — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, t — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities tha — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Disease was a perverse, a dissolute form of life. And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening o — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhance — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend in — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to expr — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts. — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system processes great masses of — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain