Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard… — Quoted

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“Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.”

Thomas Mann · Family

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Thomas Mann

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

Truth

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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.

Time

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Everything is politics.

Politics

Thomas Mann

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Equality