“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“Science knows only one commandment–contribute to science.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“Food first, then morality.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“The theater-goer in conventional dramatic theater says: Yes, I’ve felt that way, too. That’s the way I am. That’s life. That’s theway it will always be. The suffering of this or that person grips me because there is no escape for him. That’s great art–Everything is self- evident. I am made to cry with those who cry, and laugh with those who laugh. But the theater-goer in the epic theater says: I would never have thought that. You can’t do that. That’s very strange, practically unbelievable. That has to stop. The suffering of this or that person grips me because there is an escape for him. That’s great art–nothing is self-evident. I am made to laugh about those who cry, and cry about those who laugh.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.”
Bertolt Brecht
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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. 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 Brecht
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“The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“War is like love, it always finds a way.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“Science knows only one commandment — contribute to science.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“Right is its own defense.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
Bertolt Brecht
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“It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“Don’t tell me peace has broken out.”
Bertolt Brecht
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“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”
Bertolt Brecht
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“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.”
Bertolt Brecht
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