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
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
Pretend to be dumb, thats the only way to reach old age. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
…the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it… – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers