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56 quotes by Thomas Mann

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2014) Thomas Mann Mann in 1937 Born Paul Thomas Mann (1875-06-06)6 June 1875 Free City of Lübeck, German Empire Died 12 August 1955(1955-08-12) (aged 80) Zürich, Switzerland Occupation Novelist, short story writer, essayist Period 1896–1954 Genre Novel,...
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive... →

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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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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... →

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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and... →

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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on... →

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe... →

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