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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true."
"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."
"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way."
"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
"The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics."
"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
"Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators."
"Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar."
"Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings."
"He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it."
"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
"The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite."
"I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other."
"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
"However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream."
"I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart."
"No matter how heavy the challenges we face in our life, embrace optimism, perseverance, tenacity and courage. Never lose faith and hope and a generous heart who live and breathes with a timeless love."
"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
"A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse."
"Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone."
"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."
"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone."
"What God chooses for us children of men is always the best."
"Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly."
"Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone."
"Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike."
"Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy."
"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace."
"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."
"I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different."
"We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family."
"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life."
"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense."
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