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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"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."
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost."
"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!"
"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."
"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."
"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."
"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."
"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
"Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples."
"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."
"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."
"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."
"A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs."
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."
"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."
"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."
"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."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy."
"Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise."
"I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk."
"The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself."
"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
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