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Human life is beyond comprehension.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Justice is horrible.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

Friedrich Durrenmatt