Today is the birthday of Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955), novelist. In 1929, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel, Buddenbrooks.
Thomas Mann is another author of banned books. His works were publicly burned by the Nazis and he was forced to leave Germany for the United States, where he became a naturalised citizen in 1938.
“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.” - Thomas Mann
"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? " - Thomas Mann
"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. " - Thomas Mann
"The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea." - Thomas Mann
"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. " - Thomas Mann
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. " - Thomas Mann
Trivia bit: Thomas Mann's older brother was the writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann were all noted writers.
“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.” - Thomas Mann
"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? " - Thomas Mann
"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. " - Thomas Mann
"The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea." - Thomas Mann"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. " - Thomas Mann
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. " - Thomas Mann
Trivia bit: Thomas Mann's older brother was the writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann were all noted writers.
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