Thomas Mann
German Novelist and Short Story Writer
Date of Birth | : | 06 Jun, 1875 |
Date of Death | : | 12 Aug, 1955 |
Place of Birth | : | Lübeck, Germany |
Profession | : | Author, Essayist, Higher Education Teacher |
Nationality | : | American, German |
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 versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.