Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bertolt Brecht
Age: 58 †
Born: 1898
Born: February 10
Died: 1956
Died: August 14
Author
Director
Film Director
Librettist
Literary Critic
Lyricist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Writer
Kreisfreie Stadt Augsburg
Berŭtʻoltʻŭ Bŭrehitʻŭ
Pertōl Pirekcṭ
Mpertolt Mprecht
Pu-lai-hsi-tʻe
Pertōlṭ Pirekcṭ
Perṭōlṭ Pireṣṭ
Bertolt Breht
Bert Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
Bertholt Brecht
Bertolʹd Brekht
Bertolʹt Brekht
Brecht
Bertold Brecht
B. Brekht
Bŭrehitʻŭ
Pei-tʻo-erh-tʻe Pu-lai-hsi-tʻe
Noticing
Contentment
Heels
Happiness
Happy
Everyone
Right
Chases
More quotes by Bertolt Brecht
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
Bertolt Brecht
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
Bertolt Brecht
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
Bertolt Brecht
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
Bertolt Brecht
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
Bertolt Brecht
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Bertolt Brecht
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
Bertolt Brecht
Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars because to write demands thinking.
Bertolt Brecht
If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.
Bertolt Brecht
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Bertolt Brecht
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
Bertolt Brecht
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
Bertolt Brecht
Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
Bertolt Brecht
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
Bertolt Brecht
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Bertolt Brecht
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
Only bad generals need heroes.
Bertolt Brecht
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover only the clover isn't good enough.
Bertolt Brecht
