A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Quote by Thomas Mann

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

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

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...

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

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

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

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

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

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

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

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

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

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

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

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

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

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

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

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

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

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

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

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

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

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