The Magic Mountain: First Edition (Barvas Fiction)

by Thomas Mann

Time, they say, is water from the river Lethe,

Children and grandchildren observe in order to admire, and they admire in order to learn and develop what heredity has stored within them.

and he could never have defended her against criticisms that he himself acknowledged.

For literature was nothing other than the union of humanism and politics,

Time is a gift of the gods to humankind,

the truly dreadful enemy is the unknown.

love and death, are carnal, and that is the source of their terror and great magic!

God has implanted in man natural instincts that have caused the world’s peoples to separate into various nations. War—”

The sole purpose of democracy is to provide an individualistic corrective to the absolutism of the state.

Truth and justice are the crown jewels of individual morality;

It is ultimately a cruel misunderstanding of youth to believe it will find its heart’s desire in freedom. Its deepest desire is to obey.”

‘Money will become our emperor’—that

heaven. You have spoken to our pupils here about the Church’s bloody

according to the divine law of nature, the earth is the common property of all mankind and therefore its fruits are likewise intended for the common use of all.

Opinions cannot live unless they have the chance to do battle—and

We come out of darkness and return to darkness, with some experiences in between.

You see something mystical where there is only mystification,