Max Frisch Quotes

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

“A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.”

“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”

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

“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”

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

“If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first li”

“You can put anything into words, except your own life”

“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.”

“Oh, this yearning to be white, this yearning to have straight hair, this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...”