He was one of Switzerland's most important
contemporary writers; in fact, he is perhaps the most important and successful German-language playwright after world war II.
He is also one of the most important European dramatists to write since the Second World War. That he has been largely neglected in the English-speaking world
(1921-1990)
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace
with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is
a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
You can't take back an act you were able to think.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Human life is beyond comprehension.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a
spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter
on this planet is death.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their
claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was a popular American
author and humorist. Upon his death he was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age." Twain was called "the father of
American literature" and he was most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(1835-1910)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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