Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others. - Max Frisch

One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive

He knows that every piece of selfknowledge 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 selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge 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 selfknowledge

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