Max Frisch - People Quotes

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Cause and effect are never divided between two people

Max Frisch
We were calling for manpower and people came.

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He knows that every piece of self-knowledge 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 self-knowledge which is no self-knowledge 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 self-knowledge.

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

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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.

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

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

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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?

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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