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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."
"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!"
"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."
"A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs."
"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."
"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."
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
"For a person who is dying only eternity counts."
"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
"I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs."
"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."
"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."
"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."
"A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick."
"I may not amount to much but at least I am unique."
"Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity."
"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."
"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."
"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."
"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."
"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."
"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost."
"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."
"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers."
"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."
"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."
"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."
"I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films."
"What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?"
"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."
"The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder."
"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."
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