"Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent."
― Thomas Mann
Topic(s):
Time
More From Thomas Mann
- "Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
- "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."
- "For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts."
More In Time
- "We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories."― Cecil Rhodes
- "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."― Andre Gide
- "Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame."― Robert Anton Wilson