When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
BERTOLT BRECHTShow them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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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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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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But something’s missing.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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