Quotes by Mann, Thomas

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indi >>

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you >>

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. >>

Quotations about Unknown

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? >>

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He >>

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, >>

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.

Mann, Thomas