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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, and in elaborating and shaping this image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present, and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life. Therein lies the social significance of art: it is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is most lacking."
"A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind."
"To annoy or piss off are light offences. I'd say if you abuse the goodness of a novelist or a writer, the truth is, he or she can kill you multiple times or cannibalise you in many antagonist characters."
"Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch "in stitches."
"Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen."
"Don't accuse others of your past, hidden guilt and sins."
"Many or few alternatives can be at hand. A wise and skilful choice acts from a sincere effort. Solutions and results come from cooperation, hard work and efficiency. With high intention matched with a flexible, patient heart and proficient action gets best quality and value. As for the restless grumbles raving from unconsciousness of complexity of matters, best be brushed off ducking out wisely from discourtesies."
"Not all generous hearts are gullible enough to be screwed by cold, calculating, business propaganda. A person who has an eye for what is right and the truth will immediately spot the cunning ways of a selfish "user and hungry grabber" who took initiative to grab the originality from other people they tried to profile, fake befriended and extracted favours."
"Make the best of what you have today.Today is the day.The best is here: now, it is always be at the present moment."
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
"True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players."
"It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone."
"Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces."
"That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it."
"What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams."
"Don't let cycles of violent crimes, uncontrollable, rising cases of bloody impunity, evil puppets in a crippled judiciary, marionettes in a corrupted legislative system manipulated by a fascist executive system and its annihilative corruption be the incurable epidemics of the disintegration of the environmental, emotional, social, intellectual, physical, professional, occupational, moral and ethical destruction of your homeland."
"Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair."
"Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body."
"In the soul of all liars, the unparalleled truth is a sickness. The unparalleled truth shall come out but first the liars will stretch their calumny. His past crimes shall haunt his heart. His evil ways shall torment his soul. The web of lies will fill up his brain cells. His secrets however hidden shall eventually come out."
"Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual."
"I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda."
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."
"We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it."
"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."
"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
"I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are."
"There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true."
"When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
"It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent unit but as something unique and singular which in the last analysis can be neither known nor compared with anything else."
"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."
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