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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."
"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."
"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."
"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."
"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
"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."
"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."
"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."
"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."
"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."
"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!"
"Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge."
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
"Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets."
"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures."
"Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction."
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
"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."
"The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be."
"For a person who is dying only eternity counts."
"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."
"I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs."
"Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it."
"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
"In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet."
"It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world."
"The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder."
"One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it."
"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."
"I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."
"Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt."
"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."
"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."
"The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society."
"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
"Stretch an unwavering tenacity when facing bad to worse attitudes."
"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
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