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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
"Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite."
"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts."
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
"I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love."
"There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it."
"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."
"It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart."
"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly."
"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."
"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."
"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."
"For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation."
"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."
"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."
"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."
"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."
"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am."
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."
"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."
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