Max Frisch - Living Quotes

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If on some occasion I happen to read something in it — because, for instance, I need to know a date — I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeed in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.

Max Frisch

Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon

Max Frisch

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Max Frisch

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

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

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.

Max Frisch