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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
