The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHTEats first, morals after.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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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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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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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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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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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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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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