Quotes from Max Frisch

The dignity of man is in free choice.

The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

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.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

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!

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.

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.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

I have no words for my reality.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

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?

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

Come," she said. "We're married, Walter, married. Don't touch me.

Sie wird gebraucht, unsere Schuld, sie rechtfertigt viel im Leben anderer.

Everything happened exactly as I had intended it shouldn't.