Brecht Collected Plays: 5: Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children (World Classics) (64 page)

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^*
Song translated by Ralph Manheim.

^*
Objectivists who prove the necessity of a given sequence of facts are always in danger of slipping into the position of justifying those facts (Lenin).

^*
[The text referred to throughout this essay is that of the Brecht-Laughton translation, for which see p. 333 ff.]

^*
[Brecht added Note 9 at a later date for inclusion in his Notes to the Play.]

^*
Scene 5 was not played in this production.

(1)
Sextus Empiricus,
Hypotyposes
, 1, 21.

(2)
Ibid., 1, 19, cited Montaigne
Essays
2, 12.

(3)
I Corinthians 8:2. The A.V. quotation is ‘And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.’

(4)
Lucretius,
De Rerum Natura
, 6, cited Montaigne
Essays
2, 12.

(5)
Ecclesiastes 1, of which verse 13 in A.V. reads ‘And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith’ (
Essays
2, 17).

(6)
Keramos anthropos. Wrongly attributed to Romans 9.

(7)
Ecclesiastes 7: ‘… neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?’

(8)
Epictetus, cited by Stobaeus. (
Essays
1, 14.)

(9)
Terence,
Heautontimoroumenos
Act 1 (
Essays
2, 2). This was Karl Marx’s favourite saying.

(10)
Ecclesiastes 7. Or more probably 6:12, which reads ‘For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?’ (
Essays
2, 12).

(11)
Essays
2, 37, after Martial, 10.

(12)
Plato,
Cratylus
.

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Life of Galileo
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Leben des Galilei
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Galileo
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Mother Courage and her Children
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