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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."
"We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior."
"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
"It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended."
"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."
"Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families."
"It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world."
"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
"The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness."
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."
"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
"There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them."
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."
"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy."
"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."
"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."
"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."
"For a person who is dying only eternity counts."
"There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying."
"In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms."
"A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship."
"Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed."
"It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy."
"Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists."
"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."
"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."
"However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights."
"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
"Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man."
"I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs."
"The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'"
"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
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