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.
BERTOLT BRECHTI was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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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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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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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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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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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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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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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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