Friedrich Durrenmatt

Justice is horrible. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#justice

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#creates #endangered #imperfect #man #reality

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#been #ever #nothing #taken #thought

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#does #fire #lost #set #which

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

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#demands #freedom #issuing #mind #only

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. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dangerous #deadly #findings #make #our

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#last #leg #like #only #people

Power is paradoxical. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#paradoxical

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#expediency #go #hand #political #religion

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. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#conquer #fear #fearlessly #learn #look