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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness."
"A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow."
"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
"Character and attitude deficiencies are piercing thorns depending your handhold."
"I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him."
"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another."
"I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared."
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."
"Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short of cash, abuse your rights and attack other people's home."
"In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms."
"The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity."
"This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge."
"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
"The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them."
"I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage."
"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact."
"The sight of a child will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons - longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona."
"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."
"Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them."
"The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."
"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."
"The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity."
"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."
"At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing in the Tower that has not grown into its own form over the decades, nothing with which I am not linked. Here everything has its history, and mine; here is space for the spaceless kingdom of the world's and the psyche's hinterland."
"I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will."
"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self."
"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it."
"Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true."
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