Thomas Mann Video

Do to others what you would have them do to you.

The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Be curious, not judgmental.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.

We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.