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
ownership concerned
There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.
marriage crosses shows
The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
marriage hands defeat
Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.
death technology body
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!
want
The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
yearning
Why don't we follow our yearning?
reflection views order
It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending; the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive.
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.
guilt use lives-of-others
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
realizing consciousness moments
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
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.
laughter mean laughing
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?