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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"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."
"We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself."
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."
"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."
"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."
"I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!"
"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."
"There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it."
"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."
"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."
"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."
"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."
"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."
"A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs."
"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."
"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."
"The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be."
"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."
"Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority."
"The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure."
"I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk."
"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
"The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder."
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