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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
