My greatest fear: repetition. Max Frisch More Quotes by Max Frisch More Quotes From 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 technology body death It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending; the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive. Max Frisch reflection views order Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner. Max Frisch defeat marriage hands 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. Max Frisch mastery technology men 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. Max Frisch technology mistake death 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? Max Frisch laughter laughing mean All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman. Max Frisch mad identity desire Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge. Max Frisch fate finals men Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug. Max Frisch pieces destiny believe If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one. Max Frisch conscience guilty ifs Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others. Max Frisch lives-of-others guilt use Cause and effect are never divided between two people. Max Frisch causes two people We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle. Max Frisch light bridges men Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense. Max Frisch income citizens house Nothing is harder than to accept oneself. Max Frisch harder oneself accepting Every uniform corrupts one's character. Max Frisch membership uniforms character The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created. Max Frisch neighbor demand accepting I know that I'm the happiest of lovers. Max Frisch lovers knows I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. Max Frisch fate used believe Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it. Max Frisch
