The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
BERTOLT BRECHTNowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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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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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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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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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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