Thomas Mann Quotes
Best 8 Quotes by Thomas Mann
“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”
“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”
“War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
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“Ultimately we are only as old as we feel in our hearts and minds.”
The Magic Mountain Quotes
“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”
“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
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“It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By
means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou
relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.”
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