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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food."
"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"
"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?"
"My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers."
"Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older."
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
"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."
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
"Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate."
"For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region."
"Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart."
"First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment."
"Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices."
"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."
"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."
"Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar."
"People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies."
"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."
"It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."
"The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint."
"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."
"Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America."
"Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness."
"Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command."
"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
"The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences."
"It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time."
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