Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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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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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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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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