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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.