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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law."
"There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead."
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."
"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
"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."
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice."
"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."
"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."
"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
"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."
"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."
"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers."
"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
"All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong, he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm."
"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."
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
"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."
"There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!"
"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."
"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."
"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost."
"Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction."
"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
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