Thomas Mann Quotes
Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, and essayist. In 1929, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Thomas Mann Quotes
Here are quotes of Paul Thomas Mann:
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
“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.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”
― Thomas Mann
“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
“Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
― Thomas Mann, This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of One Hundred Thoughtful Men and Women
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