Quotes by "Bertolt Brecht"

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

What's joy to one is a nightmare to the other.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

When praying does no good, insurance does help.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Natürlich muss die Wahrheit im Kampf mit der Unwahrheit geschrieben werden und sie darf nicht etwas Allgemeines, Hohes, Vieldeutiges sein. Von dieser allgemeinen, hohen, vieldeutigen Art ist ja gerade die Unwahrheit. Wenn von einem gesagt wird, er hat die Wahrheit gesagt, so haben zunächst einige oder viele oder einer etwas anderes gesagt, eine Lüge oder etwas Allgemeines, aber er hat die Wahrheit gesagt, etwas Praktisches, Tatsächliches, Unleugbares, das, um was es sich handelte.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

People who understand everything get no stories.

Sto lavorando duro per preparare il mio prossimo errore.

Why be a man when you can be a success.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a planet we're not responsible, he thought.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.