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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."
"The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them."
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."
"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."
"But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites, hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind."
"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 world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
"I may not amount to much but at least I am unique."
"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
"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."
"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
"Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law."
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
"The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods."
"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."
"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."
"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice."
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."
"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost."
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
"There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead."
"Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity."
"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."
"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
"There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!"
"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."
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