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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
