Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Eats first, morals after.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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But something’s missing.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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