Creative Quotations from Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Thomas Mann
(1875-1955) born on Jun 06

German-US novelist. "He was known for psychological studies and explorations of mythology; Nobel Prize, 1929."

Literature. . . is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

"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."

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R:	""Essay on Freud.""
A:	""Essays of Three Decades," 1942."
N:	"In "The Peter Pyramid," by Laurence J. Peter."
K:	""The Magic Mountain.""