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
want
The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
yearning
Why don't we follow our yearning?
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.
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.
mad identity desire
All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.
freedom men choices
The dignity of man is in free choice.
distance eye age
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.
progress delight shelter
Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.
accepting harder oneself
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
death people tears
Why do dying people never shed tears?
lovers knows
I know that I'm the happiest of lovers...
travel communication mean
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.
death mistake technology
Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.