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Thomas Mann quotes

Deutsch Writer June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955

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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
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. Thomas Mann
It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it came into being; for knowledge of the sources of an artist's inspiration would often confuse readers and shock them, and the excellence of the writing would be of no avail. Thomas Mann
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. ... Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms..."
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. Thomas Mann

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