Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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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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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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