Quotes by Mann, Thomas

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life >>

Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote. >>

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fa >>

Quotations about Skepticism

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the wei >>

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and s >>

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the c >>

We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.

Mann, Thomas