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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
"In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it."
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."
"Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance."
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."
"It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first."
"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."
"I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself."
"It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person."
"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."
"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth."
"It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living."
"Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming."
"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."
"No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do."
"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."
"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."
"Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender."
"Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man."
"Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back."
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
"Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death."
"Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law."
"The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said."
"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."
"The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity."
"There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead."
"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
"I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line."
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
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