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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
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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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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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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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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.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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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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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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