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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it."
"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."
"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."
"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
"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?"
"Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families."
"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished."
"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers."
"I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality."
"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost."
"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."
"A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick."
"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."
"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."
"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."
"I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth."
"The body should be strong enough to obey the mind; a good servant must be strong. I know that intemperance stimulates the passions; in course of time it also destroys the body; fasting and penance often produce the same results in an opposite way. The weaker the body, the more imperious its demands; the stronger it is, the better it obeys. All sensual passions find their home in effeminate bodies; the less satisfaction they can get the keener their sting."
"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."
"You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will always be threatened as long as Russia interferes in your affairs."
"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph."
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."
"A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs."
"If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin."
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
"I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films."
"The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself."
"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."
"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
"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."
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