A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Thomas Mann Quotes

German - Writer June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. Thomas Mann

Truth, Better, Than

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

Triumph, Against, Poised

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. - Thomas Mann

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. Thomas Mann

Steps, Toward, Subject

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. - Thomas Mann

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. Thomas Mann

Dying, More, His

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? Thomas Mann

Magic, Been, Ever

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. - Thomas Mann

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

Love, Death, Reason

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

Think, Needs, Makes

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. Thomas Mann

Equality, Some, Extent

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

Peace, War, Cowardly

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Thomas Mann

Love, Reason, Persons

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Everything is politics. - Thomas Mann

Everything is politics. Thomas Mann

Politics, Everything

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. Thomas Mann

Beginning, Passage, Bells

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. Thomas Mann

Chance, Survive, No Chance

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

Writing, More, Other

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Thomas Mann

Mood, Through, Hours

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. Thomas Mann

Human Being, Socialist

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. Thomas Mann

Suffering, Literature, Form

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed. Thomas Mann

Beautiful, Word, Begets

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann

Beauty, Birth, Original

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. Thomas Mann

Art, Always, Creativeness

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. Thomas Mann

Horse, Other, Companion

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Thomas Mann

Stupid, Always, Making

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! Thomas Mann

Jewel, Carefully, Human Eye

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had. Thomas Mann

Rest, Need, Weeks

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. Thomas Mann

Think, Religious, Parcel

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. Thomas Mann

Nature, Going, About

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