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Danh ngôn của Thomas Mann (Sứ mệnh: 1)

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Everything is politics.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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.