Bertolt Brecht - From the Aging category:
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Art category:
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Art category:
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Books category:
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Change category:
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Desperation category:
In the dark times / Will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing. / About the dark times. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Doubt category:
It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Fun category:
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people... it needs no other passport than fun. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Generosity category:
Everyone needs help from everyone. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Goodness category:
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Happiness category:
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Humour category:
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Interest category:
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Life category:
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Life category:
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Mirrors category:
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Mistakes category:
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Money category:
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Performance category:
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Pleasure category:
Pleasures / First look from morning's window
/ The rediscovered book (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Prayer category:
You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Progress category:
No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Questions category:
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Struggle category:
-In Praise of the Fighters (song), 1930... There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives:
These are the indispensable ones. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Taste category:
There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Teaching category:
-Life of Galileo, 1938... The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn / When teachers themselves are taught to learn. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Theory category:
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Thought category:
He thought in other heads, and in his own; others besides himself thought. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Understanding category:
People who understand everything get no stories. (Bertolt Brecht)
Bertolt Brecht - From the Wisdom category:
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. (Bertolt Brecht)
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