The self knowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life. - Max Frisch

Wer sich nicht mit Politik befaßt, hat die politische Parteinahme, die er sich sparen möchte, bereits vollzogen: er dient der herrschenden Partei.

What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.

People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?