Max Frisch Quotes - Page 3

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• Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.

  Max Frisch

  Military, Civil War, Gestures

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• 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

  Men, Light, Bridges

  Max Frisch (2006). “Homo Faber”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• I know that I'm the happiest of lovers.

  Max Frisch

  Lovers, Knows

  "Gantenbein". Book by Max Frisch, 1964.

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• All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

  Max Frisch

  Mad, Desire, Identity

  Max Frisch (1975). “Montauk”, Suhrkamp Publishers

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• Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

  Max Frisch

  Marriage, Hands, Defeat

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

  Death, Technology, Body

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

  Max Frisch

  Believe, Destiny, Pieces

  Max Frisch (1958). “I'm not Stiller”, Vintage

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• I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

  Max Frisch

  Believe, Fate, Used

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• 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

  Death, Mistake, Technology

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• 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

  Technology, Men, Mastery

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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