Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTThings take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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 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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One must live well to know what living is.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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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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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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