Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.

No man, no woman is without their flaws.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

There are things you have to look at with those world-class players, but at the end of the day, they're not superheroes. They're still human.

Of course I'm not superhuman: I'm going to get tired; that's normal.

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

Human nature is weak.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

I have spent seventy years finding out that I am not God.

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.

I like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Aren't all people flawed?

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.