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Thomas Mann quotes about life

Deutsch Writer June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955

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And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original procreation of matter only a disease, a growth produced by morbid stimulation of the immaterial? The first step toward evil, toward desire and death, was taken precisely then, when there took place that first increase in the density of the spiritual, that pathologically luxuriant morbid growth, produced by the irritant of some unknown infiltration; this, in part... Thomas Mann
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 in subordinating to his personality. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel..."
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. Thomas Mann
Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be obstinate and ironical toward civil order, so that he seeks refuge in free thought, in books, in study. Thomas Mann
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "All interest in disease and death is only another expression..."
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann
These artists pay little attention to an encircling present that bears no direct relation to the world of work in which they live, and they therefore see in it nothing more than an indifferent framework for life, either more or less favorable to production. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured..."
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life. Thomas Mann
A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and his contemporaries Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator."
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator. Thomas Mann
Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it. Thomas Mann
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of..."
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. Thomas Mann
And for its part, what was life? Was it perhaps only an infectious disease of matter—just as the so-called spontaneous generation of matter was perhaps only an illness, a cancerous stimulation of the immaterial? Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor..."
...when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us Thomas Mann

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