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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
