Thomas Mann Quotes
A German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate.
(1875 - 1955)
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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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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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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.
[Art]
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Beauty can pierce one like pain.
[Beauty]
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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
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Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
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Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
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For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
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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.
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