Max Frisch Quotes

Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness

One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive

The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.

The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words

Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

I know that I'm the happiest of lovers...

Time does not change us it just unfolds us

The self knowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

How much frankness can we stand in a friend?

A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.

Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous

Basically America (the USA) is not a warmongering but simply a commercial society: war as the continuation of business by other means.

It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.

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

To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us