Famous Quotes by Max Frisch

  • Technology ... the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. More
  • “In your company a man could die,” I said, “a man could die and you wouldn’t even notice,... More
  • It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization,... More
  • THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don’t know what... More
  • Above all, however, the machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates... More
  • Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist’s... More
  • The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel... More
  • Nothing is harder than to accept oneself. More
  • Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it’s a piece of... More
  • They talked about “sex problems” with such premature candor, with the enlightened frankness... More
  • “Babylon,” exclaimed Rolf, who had to look down again and again at this net of shimmering... More
  • That was the saddest thing for Sybille: after twenty minutes you have got as far with these... More
  • The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified. More
  • Stiller ... took part in the Spanish Civil War ... It is not clear what impelled him to this... More
  • Not for nothing does it say in the Commandments ‘Thou shalt not make unto thee any image’ ...... More
  • All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman. More
  • Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images of the Lord, thy God, nor of men who are his... More
  • Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of... More
  • If anyone has a conscience it’s generally a guilty one. More
  • It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are... More
  • Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. More
  • We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything,... More
  • There is no art without Eros. More
  • Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should... More
  • Jealousy is the fear of comparison. More
  • Contramasculinity: the apparent selflessness of the female, who allows every man who comes her... More
  • A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of... More
  • It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need... More
  • It [Switzerland] has called for workers, and has been given human beings. More
  • Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge. More
  • In view of the fact that the number of people living too long has risen catastrophically and... More
  • It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper... More
  • A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It’s difficult to... More
  • My greatest fear: repetition. More
  • I have no words for my reality. More
  • You can put anything into words, except your own life. More
  • Ballet remained the only outlet for her sensuality. More
  • Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner. More
  • There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that’s something no... More
  • How the devil am I to prove to my counsel that I don’t know my murderous impulses through C.G.... More
  • Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication... More
  • We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we... More
  • Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense. More
  • I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a... More
  • Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding... More
  • I don’t believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the... More
  • We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone... More
  • I live, like every real man, in my work. More
  • I knew that Ivy, like every woman, really only wanted to know what I felt—or thought, if I... More

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