Max Frisch - Knowledge Quotes

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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.

Max Frisch

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes — or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.

Max Frisch

How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.

Max Frisch