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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it."
"A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas."
"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."
"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."
"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."
"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."
"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."
"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."
"It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human."
"But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites, hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind."
"The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered."
"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."
"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."
"In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet."
"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
"You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it."
"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures."
"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?"
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise."
"The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself."
"The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study."
"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."
"Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike."
"Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples."
"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."
"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."
"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."
"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."
"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
"A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick."
"The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love."
"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."
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