Bertolt Brecht Quotes

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Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

Bertolt Brecht
BELLARMIN: Wouldn't you also think it possible that the Creator had a better idea of what he was making than those he has created?

Bertolt Brecht
GALILEO:...Knowledge will become a passion and research an ecstasy.

Bertolt Brecht
SAGREDO [reluctant to go to the telescope]: I feel something not all that remote from fear, Galileo.
GALILEO: I'm about to show you one of the shining milkwhite clouds in the Milky Way. Tell me what it's made up of.
SAGREDO: Those are stars, innumerable stars.

Bertolt Brecht
GALILEO: Truth is born of the times, not of authority. Our ignorance is limitless: let us lop one cubic millimeter off it. Why try to be clever now that we at last have a chance of being just a little less stupid?

Bertolt Brecht
Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.

Bertolt Brecht
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.

Bertolt Brecht
One of the main reasons why the sciences are so poor is that they imagine they are so rich. It isn't their job to throw open the door to infinite wisdom but to put a limit to infinite error.
Galileo speaking

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

Bertolt Brecht