Golo Mann, 1978

Golo Mann (27 March 1909 – 7 April 1994), born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann.

Quotes

• “We cannot have another world war. War is the wrong word. We should ban the term ‘World War III’ and say instead apocalypse or holocaust.”
  • Hamburg’s Die Zeit, August 30, 1985. cited in: The Watchtower, 2/15 1986.

• Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.
  • Golo Mann. Thomas Mann and His Family, cited in: Robert Andrews (2003), The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations. p. 1137.

• Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
  • Golo Mann in his Recollections, quoted in: Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1989), Thomas Mann and his family, p. 187.

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