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Facts about Thomas Mann SummaryThomas Mann was a famous Writer from Germany, who lived between June 6, 1875 and August 12, 1955.Zodiac etc.He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable. Our collection contains 44 quotes who is written / told by Thomas.Related authors: Philippe Halsman Famous quotes by Thomas Mann (44)  "A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness"
"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"
"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"
"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph"
"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress"
"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally"
"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive"
"Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism"
"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"
"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"
"The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought"
"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"
"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!"
"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"
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