Thomas Mann

The invention of printing and the Reformation are and remain the two outstanding services of central Europe to the cause of humanity.

The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Psycho-analyses — how disgusting.

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state. Yes, it can even, in the twinkling of an eye, make something like a vagabond of the pedant and Philistine. Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.