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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
"We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee."
"Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind."
"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
"The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are more subtle and far more dangerous."
"Hammer the lies! Nail the truth."
"I sail through life with great trust in my heart. Whoever stains and breaks that trust will be in a cold water best left behind. I felt the cold breeze of monetary means through the low ethics of money driven minds.I securely docked in a shore I call home without the cloaks of dead winter I saw on people who have used me."
"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."
"Everyone can choose to live with a golden heart, it is a privilege of loving truly."
"The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naA ve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
"Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided."
"You do not have an inferior function, it has you."
"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
"People spread gossips, calumny, and false accusations to destroy their subject victim's integrity. Question the motive of people who erroneously, offensively, defensively, intrusively, abusively and intentionally brand you as a threat, a risk or a danger to life or security."
"Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous."
"I shall always inspire many hearts in timeless moments."
"Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty."
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