One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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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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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Right is its own defense.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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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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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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