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Thomas Mann

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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.


— Thomas Mann


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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.


— Thomas Mann


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


— Thomas Mann


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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.


— Thomas Mann


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Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.


— Thomas Mann


#culture #possessions #you

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


— Thomas Mann


#disease #leaves #makes #men #more

Everything is politics.


— Thomas Mann


#politics

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.


— Thomas Mann


#artists #beauty #cannot #company #eros

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.


— Thomas Mann


#beautiful word #begets #deed #word

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.


— Thomas Mann


#art #characterizes #creates #creativeness #critical






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His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories as well as the ideas of Goethe Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. " Nietzsche's influence on Mann runs deep in his work especially in Nietzsche's views on decay and the proposed fundamental connection between sickness and creativity. In 1942 the Mann family moved to Pacific Palisades in west Los Angeles California where they lived until after the end of World War II.

Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his own family in the novel Buddenbrooks. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories as well as the ideas of Goethe Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. When Hitler came to power in 1933 Mann fled to Switzerland.

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