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
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
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.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
What is uttered is finished and done with.
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
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