A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. — Quoted

“Quotes”

“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”

Thomas Mann · Truth

⇩

Show me another

Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.

Thomas Mann

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

Truth

Thomas Mann

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

History

Thomas Mann

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.

Beauty

Thomas Mann

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

Peace