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Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Swiss
Author
Born:
Jan 5
,
1921
Died:
Dec 14
,
1990
Act
Man
Only
Think
World
You
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Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
World
Hell
Tolerance
Our
Our World
Without
Turns
Truth is always a delusion.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Truth
Truth Is
Delusion
Always
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Only
Counts
Person
Dying
Eternity
Who
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
Man
People
Think
State
Those
Critical
Critically
Facilitate
Entity
Rational
Mythical
Human
Order
Fiction
Created
Who
Coexistence
Acumen
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Freedom
Mind
State
Totalitarian
Only
Prevent
Demands
Becoming
Human life is beyond comprehension.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Life
Comprehension
Beyond
Human
Human Life
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
Friedrich Durrenmatt
World
Become
Humane
More
How
Inhuman
The savages don't have atom bombs.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Atom
Bombs
Savages
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Art
Good
Good Things
Only
Mastered
Said
Cuisine
Human
Which
Capability
Fully
Things
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Dissent
Claim
Rightful
Individual
Existential
Right
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age
Old
Old Age
Way
Pretend
Only
Reach
Dumb
World history is tragic.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
History
World
Tragic
World History
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Today
Communism
Myth
Party
Think
Abandon
Only
Democratic
Becomes
Infallible
Survive
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Patriotism
Behavior
Consider
Civilized
Desirable
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Thought
Worst
Possible
Has-Been
Through
Taken
Been
End
Story
Turn
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Man
Reality
Imperfect
He
Always
Endangered
Creates
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
News
Change
World
Change The World
Those
Only
Facts
Get
Reports
Happened
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Risks
Humanity
Destruction
Acceptable
Which
Them
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
You
Business
Emotions
Unless
Place
Them
We are the world.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
World
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Fear
Weapons
Who
You can't take back an act you were able to think.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
You
Think
Back
Able
Take
Were
Act
It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
You
Victim
Easy
See
Your
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
God
Man
Unable
Hiding
See
Only
Him
Am
Us
Search
Humans
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Reality
Nothing
Out
Horrifying
More
Only
Wiped
Left
Any
Behind
Moment
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