"A harmful truth is better than a useful…" — Thomas Mann
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."
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105 Quotes by Thomas Mann
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense…
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