There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
BERTOLT BRECHTNever believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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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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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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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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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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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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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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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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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. …
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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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