Max Frisch: Quotes about people

Max Frisch was Swiss playwright and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“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.”

Max Frisch book Montauk

Montauk (1975)

People , Question

“We asked for workers. We got people instead.”

Max Frisch
People

“We were calling for manpower and people came.”

Max Frisch

Man hat Arbeitskräfte gerufen, und es kamen Menschen.
Articles

People

“Cause and effect are never divided between two people”

Max Frisch

I'm not Stiller (1955)

People

“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”

Max Frisch book Gantenbein

Gantenbein (1964)

People , Feeling

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

Max Frisch

Drafts for a Third Sketchbook (2013)

People , Dead

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

Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1966-1977

Hate , People , Feeling

“How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.”

Max Frisch

I'm not Stiller (1955)

People , Knowledge

“People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?”

Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

Love , People , Books , Education