30 quotes by Bertolt Brecht to share your ideas

Intelligence is not about not making mistakes, but knowing how to solve them quickly.

All the arts contribute to the greatest of all arts, the art of living.

Our judges are absolutely incorruptible: with no sum of money they can be bribed to speak properly!

It is useless to start from the good things as usual, but from the new and bad.

A man is always afraid of a woman who loves him very much.

Everyone runs after happiness, but happiness is chasing everyone.

It is not enough to have been good when you leave the world. We need to leave a better world.

He who does not know the truth is simply ignorant, but he who knows it and says it is a lie is a criminal.

The river that drags everything is said to be violent. But nobody says violent the margins that compress it.

Life is short and so is money.

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He does not listen, speak, or participate in political events.

The mothers of dead soldiers are judges of war.

Science knows only one command: contribute to science.

Innocence is madness. An unwrinkled forehead denotes insensitivity. He who laughs has not yet received the terrible news that is to come.

Only believe what your eyes see and your ears hear. Don’t even believe what your eyes see and your ears hear. And know that not believing is still believing.

I have a lot to do. I prepare my next mistake.

You will not be able to dislike me from war. It is said to destroy the weak, but peace does the same.

Always ask each idea: who do you serve?

The ambition of science is not to open the door to infinite knowledge, but to put a limit to infinite error.

When the truth is too weak to defend itself, it will have to go on the attack.

For those who have a good social position, talking about food is low. It’s understandable: they’ve already eaten.

Better than robbing banks is founding one.

First comes the stomach, then the morals.

That we continue to omit ourselves from politics is all the bad guys in public life want most.

Of all things sure, the surest is doubt.

Unhappy the nation that needs heroes.

Fear less of death and more of insufficient life.

Love is the art of creating something with the help of another’s ability.

For art, not being from any party just means being from the dominant party.

Great art demands love and hate.