Max Frisch - Human Quotes

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

Max Frisch

'Everything that is human looks like a special case'

Max Frisch

Only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.

Max Frisch

Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.

Max Frisch

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!

Max Frisch