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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."
"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."
"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."
"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."
"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."
"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth."
"I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself."
"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
"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."
"It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living."
"Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender."
"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."
"No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do."
"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back."
"The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgement go, is completely neutral. It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases. But the moment the patient begins to assimilate contents that were previously unconscious, its danger diminishes. The dissociation of personality, the anxious division of the day-time and the night-time sides of the psyche, cease with progressive assimilation."
"For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear."
"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."
"The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity."
"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."
"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."
"The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said."
"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."
"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."
"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."
"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."
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