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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
"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."
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."
"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."
"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."
"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."
"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
"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."
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."
"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."
"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."
"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 hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for 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."
"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
"I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films."
"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice."
"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
"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."
"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
"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."
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."
"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."
"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."
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