Quotes by Max Frisch

Max Frisch

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.

Believe

Camouflage

Simple

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Answers

Men

Protection

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive…. It’s difficult to say what makes a life a real life…. You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

Alive

Identity

Real

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Choices

Criticism

People

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

Desire

Identity

Mad

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

Causes

People

Two

Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.

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.

Believe

Destiny

Pieces

Every uniform corrupts one’s character.

Character

Membership

Uniforms

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

Delight

Progress

Shelter

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Accepting

Age

Alive

Answers

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Attitude

Believe

Body

Bridges

Camouflage

Causes

Character

Choices

Citizens

Civil War

Civilization

Communication

Comparison

Concerned

Conscience

Consciousness

Criticism

Crosses

Death

Deception

Defeat

Delight

Demand

Desire

Destiny

Differences

Distance

Doe

Easy

Encounters

Eros

Eye

Fate

Feelings

Film

Finals

Firsts

Freedom

Gestures

Giving

God

Greatest Fear

Guilt

Guilty

Hands

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Quotes by Max Frisch

Max Frisch

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.

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive…. It’s difficult to say what makes a life a real life…. You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

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

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.

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

Every uniform corrupts one’s character.

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

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