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Thomas Mann has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression,…
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of…
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Everything is politics.
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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the…
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy…
— William Wordsworth
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom,…
— Robert Burns
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O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by…
— Mortimer Collins
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I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
— Thomas Mann
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Soldiers of the ploughshare aswell as soldiers of the sword.
— John Ruskin
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