Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
BERTOLT BRECHTReality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Eats first, morals after.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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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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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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The fate of man is man.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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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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