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Quotes by Swiss Authors
!["I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains.... But when I see [barbarous man] sacrifice pleasures, repose, wealth, power, and life itself for the preservation of this sole good which is so disdained by those who have lost it; when I see animals born free and despising captivity break their heads against the bars of their prison; when I see multitudes of entirely naked savages scorn European voluptuousness and endure hunger, fire, the sword, and death to preserve only their independence, I feel it does not behoove slaves to reason about freedom."](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains.... But when I see [barbarous man] sacrifice pleasures, repose, wealth, power, and life itself for the preservation of this sole good which is so disdained by those who have lost it; when I see animals born free and despising captivity break their heads against the bars of their prison; when I see multitudes of entirely naked savages scorn European voluptuousness and endure hunger, fire, the sword, and death to preserve only their independence, I feel it does not behoove slaves to reason about freedom."
"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."
"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
"Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists."
"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."
"Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command."
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
"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."
"Appearances, beauty, value and life have their unique mysteries and essence. I prefer that essence to be breathing with humility, honesty, compassion, respect and a timeless love."
"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.'"
"I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music, but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it."
"The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs."
"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy."
"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
"I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity."
"In each of us there is another whom we do not know.Carl Jungfound in David Eagleman's book: Incognito."
"Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy."
"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
"We must powder our wigs, that is why so many poor people have no bread."
"Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good."
"Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time."
"One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible."
"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."
"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."
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
"There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them."
"Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man."
"In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature."
"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."
"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."
"As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge."
"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."
"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
"We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior."
"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."
"The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision."
"Order is a great person's need and their true well being."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"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."
"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."
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