People who understand everything get no stories.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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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.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Right is its own defense.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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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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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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