He knows that every piece of self-knowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his self-knowledge which is no self-knowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones self-knowledge.


Gantenbein (1964)

Max Frisch Quotes

He knows that every piece of self-knowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent...

He knows that every piece of self-knowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent...

He knows that every piece of self-knowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent...

He knows that every piece of self-knowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent...