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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.