Friedrich Durrenmatt

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

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World history is tragic.

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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

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What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.

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A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

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Quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt