Heinrich Mann Quotes

And my father, after all, was a nationalist. ~ Heinrich Mann

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. ~ Heinrich Mann

I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of literary existence in Germany with such eminent contemporaries as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Werfel, Freud, Einstein, and many others whose work I consider incomparably more important than my own, ~ Stefan Zweig

I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but 'yourself.' I know, and you don't, what you really are deep down. Deep down, you are what a deer, your God, your poet, or your philosopher is. But you think you're a member of the VFW, your bowling club, or the Ku Klux Klan, and because you think so, you behave as you do. This too was told you long ago, by Heinrich Mann in Germany, by Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos in the United States. But you recognized neither Mann nor Sinclair. You recognize only the heavyweight champion and Al Capone. If given your choice between a library and a fight, you'll undoubtedly go to the fight. ~ Wilhelm Reich

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. ~ Murray Gell-Mann

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. ~ Thomas E. Mann

Our soulmate is revealed only once during our life. Maybe it's a glimpse of a stranger. Maybe it's our best friend. The timing may not always be right. But, when they're shown to us, we know it's them. Then, life happens. We grow. We age. We develop scars. And we remember that glimpse. Some are lucky enough to spend the rest of their lives with that person. Some, like me, have only memories. ~ Marni Mann

But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes protrude from the head, and lends the features a corpselike and terrifying aspect. More than that, this music acted on the nerves that controlled her digestion, producing in her dyspeptic organism such malaise that she was really afraid she would have an attack. ~ Thomas Mann

When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter. ~ Sally Mann

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? ~ Thomas Mann

Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought. ~ Thomas Mann

Fear ... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction ~ Heinrich Harrer

Personally, I find looking at all of the supporting materials and bring it all back to me - the people I worked with, the experience of working on a project - makes it come alive again. So, I try to put those experiences into my commentary for the viewers. ~ Michael Mann

Harshaw held that certain feet were made for stepping on, in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare, and minimize the ancient insolence of office; he had seen at once that Heinrich had such feet. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach. ~ Sally Mann

I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man. ~ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

But paradise is locked and bolted ...
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open. ~ Heinrich Von Kleist

Stop. I'm not going to take any more input until I've made something with what I got. ~ Merlin Mann

There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running
and nothing quite so savage, so wild. ~ Bernd Heinrich

He sat there, the master, the artist who had achieved his dignity, the author of "A Wretched Man," who, employing a form of exemplary purity, had renounced bohemianism and the dismal chasm, had broken with the abyss and reviled all vileness. He had risen high, transcending his knowledge and outgrowing all irony, he had adjusted his responsibilities toward the public and its trust in him-he, whose fame was official, whose name was ennobled, and whose style was a model for schoolboys. ~ Thomas Mann

Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies. ~ Heinrich Heine

Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses. ~ Bernd Heinrich

The mind that does inner intentions (bhaav-mann) is the 'charge' mind. The mind that is getting exhausted (dravya-mann) is the 'discharge' mind. Bhaav-mann creates the worldly life. Dravya-mann brings an end to the worldly life. When egoism goes away, bhaav-mann vanishes. ~ Dada Bhagwan

When words leave off, music begins. ~ Heinrich Heine

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony. ~ Heinrich Heine

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me ... I don't know which makes me feel worse. ~ Thomas Mann

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience. ~ Eric Mann

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. ~ Heinrich Heine

Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and perceived by two physically different organs, the eye and the ear. How often the playing of a great master makes us think of a picture with a deep background and varying planes; the figures in the foreground almost leap out of the frame whereas in the background the mountains and clouds are lost in a blue haze. ~ Heinrich Neuhaus

I like being married to someone who does what I do, and we can talk for hours about all of this stuff that I struggle with and all this stuff that he struggles with because we're struggling with the same things. If I was married to a banker, I don't know what we'd talk about. ~ Leslie Mann

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death. ~ Horace Mann

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees. ~ Heinrich Heine

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer. ~ Merlin Mann

The newspaper, delivered daily to my mailbox, is a convenience I need to help start my fire in the morning. Not wanting to waste anything, I sometimes even read it. ~ Bernd Heinrich

Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself at present), I think it is best to choose such a denomination as means nothing of itself and thus can give no rise to any erroneous ideas. In consequence of this, as I did in the case of Uranium, I shall borrow the name for this metallic substance from mythology, and in particular from the Titans, the first sons of the earth. I therefore call this metallic genus TITANIUM. ~ Martin Heinrich Klaproth