Max Frisch Quotes - Page 2

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely

I live, like every real man, in my work.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

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 were created.

Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.

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.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

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.

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.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

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.

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.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

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.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

I know that I'm the happiest of lovers.

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

There is no art without Eros.