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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
Fritrish Tiwrrěmat't'
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
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Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.
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Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
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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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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
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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.
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
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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.
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It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
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The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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