Max Frisch: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Everything that is human looks like a special case”

“What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.”

“To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us”

“(Present) it is a culture that strictly ignores present obligations and places itself entirely at the service of eternity”

“A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.”

“Do you know what you need?”

“How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person”

“Cause and effect are never divided between two people”

“Uniforms ruin every character”

“A poem, a genuine one, does not need to fear the world; it stands up to it, even when a bell rings and an unexpected guest arrives to tell us, while the same coffee is still in our cups, of his fourteen years in captivity…”

“He knows that every piece of selfknowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones selfknowledge”

“That a plot has no real life of it's own; it exists only in it's precipitates. It cannot be distilled but only crystallized- in which form it is then immutable, whether successful or unsuccesful: once and for all”

“What hope have you know given up?”

“Where the works gives scope for individuality, one sees a blossoming of self respect”

“Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.”

“What makes Shakespeare so overwhelming is the way in which the situation (who is confronting whom) is usually itself part of the composition, meaningful already as a situation”

“The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today”

“I know that I'm the happiest of lovers…”

“I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.”