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

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

Other quotes by Thomas Mann

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. – Thomas Mann

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Death
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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

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Beauty
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For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. – Thomas Mann

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Beauty
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Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience. – Azel Backus

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Truth

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. – Horace Mann

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Truth

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. – Harry S. Truman

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Truth

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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. – Author unknown, but probably a secretary!

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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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Photography

The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured coziness. – P.G. Wodehouse

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Tea

A woman asking Am I good? Am I satisfied? is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. – Barbara Cartland

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Marriage