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
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.
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.
police soul world
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.
house citizens levels
Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
death people tears
Why do dying people never shed tears?
love space secret
We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.
lovers knows
I know that I'm the happiest of lovers...
losing
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely
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.
love god taken
Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.