Thomas Mann on ideas

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo1802–1885