Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Max Rudolf Frischwas a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. His use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war publications. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1986...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 May 1911
CountrySwitzerland
hate people hatred
I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.
want
The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
yearning
Why don't we follow our yearning?
character uniforms membership
Every uniform corrupts one's character.
technology men matter
I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.
art eros
There is no art without Eros.
men feelings robots
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.
two people causes
Cause and effect are never divided between two people.
people choices criticism
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.
guilt use lives-of-others
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
demand neighbor accepting
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.
guilty ifs conscience
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
believe destiny pieces
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
men finals dignity
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.