Max Frisch Quotes
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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
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We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
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It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending; the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive.
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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
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Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.
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The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.
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The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.
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All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.
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A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.
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Cause and effect are never divided between two people.
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Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
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When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.
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The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
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It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.
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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
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Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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I have no words for my reality.
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My greatest fear: repetition.
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Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
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Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.
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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 that society.
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In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
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Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.
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THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.
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The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
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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 bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.
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