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 BRECHTTheir peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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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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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Eats first, morals after.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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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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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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