Thomas Mann Quotes about Lying

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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Thomas Mann

Lying, Truth Is

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

Thomas Mann

Truth, Lying, Opposites

"Essay on Freud". May 16, 1929.

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

Thomas Mann

Lying, Artist, Simple

"Death in Venice". Book by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke. Chapter 3, 1912.