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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …

Bertolt Brecht

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
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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Belief Men Running
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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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Acting Men People
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …

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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …

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