List of Max Frisch Quotes

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.

I Don't Believe In Providence And Fate, As A Technologist I Am Used To Reckoning With The Formulae Of Probability.

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?

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.

We Live Technologically, With Man As The Master Of Nature, Man As The Engineer, And Let Anyone Who Raises His Voice Against It Stop Using Bridges Not Built By Nature.... No Electric Light Bulbs, No Engines, No Atomic Energy, No Calculating Machines, No Anaesthetics-back To The Jungle.

Either Marriage Is A Destiny, I Believe, Or There Is No Sense In It At All, It's A Piece Of Humbug.

There Is No Art Without Eros.

Cause And Effect Are Never Divided Between Two People.

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!

If Anyone Has A Conscience It's Generally A Guilty One.

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.

Strictly Speaking, Every Citizen Above A Certain Level Of Income Is Guilty Of Some Offense.