Thomas Mann
  • The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

  • What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

  • War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

  • Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

  • Everything is politics.