Das Schicksal des Menschen ist der Mensch.
He was weak on philosophy and an excellent driver, but his driving was a lot more dangerous than his philosophy.
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.
Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.
Pada malam ketika Tembok Tiongkok jadi, ke manakah para tukang batu pergi?
Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: “The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason”!
Every time you name yourself, you name someone else.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
Everyone needs help from everyone.
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
First the grub, then the morals.
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.