The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Thomas Mann
- Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
- Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
- Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
- In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
- People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
- If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
- We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
- A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- 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.
- 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 (1875-1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, and social critic, best known for his epic novels and deeply symbolic works. Born in Lübeck, Mann came from a family of merchants and pursued literature after the death of his father.
His early work, “Buddenbrooks” (1901), chronicling the decline of a wealthy family, brought him fame and a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. His exploration of the human condition, often through the lens of his own experiences and the socio-political upheavals of his time, marked his major novels such as “The Magic Mountain” (1924) and “Doctor Faustus” (1947).
Mann was openly critical of fascism and fled Nazi Germany in 1933, eventually settling in the United States. His works grapple with themes of identity, morality, and the conflict between individualism and collectivism. Mann’s profound influence on 20th-century literature endures through his complex characters and masterful storytelling.
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