A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
About Max Frisch
Max Rudolf Frischwas a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch’s works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment.
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I have no words for my reality.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
If anyone has a conscience it’s generally a guilty one.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
I don’t believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
You can put anything into words, except your own life.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
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.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
There is no art without Eros.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn’t understand the horse dealer’s language.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
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?
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it’s a piece of humbug.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
I live, like every real man, in my work.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
My greatest fear: repetition.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)