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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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.
