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Max Frisch Quotes

Best Quotes by Max Frisch (Top 9)

  1. Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
  2. Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
  3. 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.
  4. It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
  5. We asked for workers. We got people instead.
  6. When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.
  7. We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes—or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.
  8. If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line.
  9. A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.