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

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

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Equality
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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. – Thomas Mann

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Future
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

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Truth

What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer. – Francis Bacon

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Truth

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth. – Khalil Gibran

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Truth

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth. – Natalie Goldberg

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Truth

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