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Thomas Mann war

Thomas Mann | war

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

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Thomas Mann Truth

Thomas Mann | truth

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

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Thomas Mann Truth

Thomas Mann | truth

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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Thomas Mann Time

Thomas Mann | time

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.

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society Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann | society

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.

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positive Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann | positive

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.

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politics Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann | politics

Everything is politics.

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poetry Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann | poetry

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.

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peace Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann | peace

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

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history Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann | history

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

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