Quotes by
Thomas Mann |
1875-1955 , German writer [Nobel 1929]
German novelist and essayist whose early novels —Buddenbrooks (1900), Death in Venice (1912), and The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg–1924)— earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. | 11 quotes | 468 visits |
Quotations
| • | A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. 2 |
| • | War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. 1 |
| • | People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. 1 |
| • | A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. |
| • | Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. |
| • | Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. |
| • | A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. |
| • | Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? |
| • | I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had. |
| • | In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. |
| • | Degenerated to a wretched level of the masses, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism erupted into hysterical barbarism. |
