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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
