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Thomas Mann Quotes


A German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.
Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, 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. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, the anti-fascist Mann fled to Switzerland.

Here are some famous quotes by Thomas Mann.

Speech is civilization itself.

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It is love not reason that is stronger than death.

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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate and she is fate.

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If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.

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What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

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Time cools time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

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A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.

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Speech is civilization itself. The word even the most contradictory word preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

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Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.