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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"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."
"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."
"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."
"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings."
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
"Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is."
"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."
"The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual."
"I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared."
"Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves."
"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."
"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."
"Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption."
"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
"I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years."
"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."
"The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure."
"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."
"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."
"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."
"If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors."
"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."
"Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts."
"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense."
"The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."
"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness."
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