Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.

Quotes

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
Why be a man when you can be a success?

Success
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Death
War is like love; it always finds a way.
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Grub first, then ethics.
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
I don't trust him. We're friends.
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Ideas