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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."
"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."
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
"There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead."
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
"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."
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
"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."
"Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law."
"There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!"
"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."
"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."
"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."
"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."
"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."
"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."
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
"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."
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."
"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice."
"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
"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."
"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."
"Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction."
"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."
"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
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