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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
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.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
