Quotes by Thomas Mann

About Thomas Mann:

Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Thomas Mann

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

Thomas Mann

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

Thomas Mann

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Thomas Mann

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Thomas Mann

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

Thomas Mann

It could become much worse.

Thomas Mann

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

Thomas Mann

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Thomas Mann

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Thomas Mann

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Thomas Mann

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

Thomas Mann

Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.

Thomas Mann

For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such a disorder a vague hope ...

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La barbarie n est le contraire de la culture que dans le cadre de la hierarchie de pensee que celle-ci nous propose.

Thomas Mann

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Thomas Mann

Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being; it respects humanity.

Thomas Mann

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

Thomas Mann

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

Thomas Mann

Der Sommer hat angefangen und schon neigt er sich dem Ende zu.

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The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed...

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Author Bio

  • NameThomas Mann
  • DescriptionGerman novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
  • AliasesThomas Mann
  • BornJune 6, 1875
  • DiedAugust 12, 1955
  • CountryGerman Empire; Weimar Republic; United States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Essayist; Autobiographer; Short Story Writer; Social Critic; Diarist
  • WorksBuddenbrooks; The Magic Mountain; Death In Venice; Joseph And His Brothers; Lotte In Weimar: The Beloved Returns
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Goethe Prize; Order Of Merit For Arts And Science