Max Frisch: Quotes about people

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

Max Frisch: 134 quotes4 likes

“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)

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

“We were calling for manpower and people came.”

Man hat Arbeitskräfte gerufen, und es kamen Menschen.
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“Cause and effect are never divided between two people”

I'm not Stiller (1955)

“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)

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

Drafts for a Third Sketchbook (2013)

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

Sketchbook 1966-1977

“The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

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

I'm not Stiller (1955)

“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?”

Sketchbook 1946-1949