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Golo Mann Quotes

1909–1994 Germany

Golo Mann (27 March 1909 – 7 April 1994), born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann.

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Random Golo Mann quote

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Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

“We cannot have another world war. War is the wrong word. We should ban the term ‘World War III’ and say instead apocalypse or holocaust.”

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Golo Mann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.