Being human Quote by Bertolt Brecht Download Open image “There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.” — Bertolt Brecht ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being human Good taste Human nature Humans Taste Time
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Copy Share Image
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it. — Franco Moschino Copy Share Image
It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“The law was made for one thing alone,for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
