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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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'
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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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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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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
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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.
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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.
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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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There are thoughts we must not think
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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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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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
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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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