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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other."
"I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years."
"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."
"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
"A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow."
"The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed."
"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."
"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
"Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence."
"Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages."
"I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability."
"It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human."
"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."
"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."
"Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is."
"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."
"The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes."
"But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?"
"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."
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
"It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking."
"My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers."
"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation."
"Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone."
"I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared."
"The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love."
"The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be."
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
"Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate."
"The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper."
"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."
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