Explore Quotes by Max Frisch

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

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

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

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?

The dignity of man is in free choice.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

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.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

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.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.