Thomas Mann

Origin : German

Born :6 June 1875

Tribute :12 August 1955

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Thomas Mann born on 6th June 1875, and passed away on 12th August 1955, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past 80 years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 56 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in german and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Thomas Mann

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I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

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.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

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

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

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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