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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
