Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mannwas 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...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 June 1875
CityLubeck, Germany
CountryGermany
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
Whether this has any long-term impact depends on whether a party or presidential candidate seizes the opportunity to elevate political reform as a campaign and governing issue.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
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.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.