The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error. - Bertolt Brecht

High above the lake a bomber flies.
From the rowing boats
Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance
They appear like young starlings, their beaks
Wide open for food.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.