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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

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown. – Thomas Mann

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Mystery
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Thomas Mann
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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. – Thomas Mann

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positive
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Thomas Mann
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Other Quotes from
Truth
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. – Virginia Woolf

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Truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Truth

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. – Theodor Adorno

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Truth

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. – Peter Abelard

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Truth

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Derived from this celebrated society for propagating the faith, the name propaganda is applied in modern political language as a term of reproach to secret associations for the spread of opinions and principles which are viewed by most governments with horror and aversion. – W.T. Brande

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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. – James Fenimore Cooper

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