Max Frisch Quotes
- All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.
- Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
- Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
- I have no words for my reality.
- A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
- Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
- Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
- If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
- It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
- Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
- If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.
- The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we…
- Cause and effect are never divided between two people.
- Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.
- A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of…
- We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using…
- The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
- Why do dying people never shed tears?
- Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
- There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.