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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"You augment your strength every time you overcome obstacles. Discover and use that unique potential you have in coping well in a positive way no matter how worst the situation can be."
"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms."
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
"Gossipmongers = Toxic Hearts Toxic Hearts = Bigot Souls."
"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand."
"Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart."
"Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated."
"The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all."
"People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter."
"But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity."
"Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk."
"It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time."
"Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies."
"Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich."
"Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf."
"Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies for future ones, but in proportion as they arose."
"The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it."
"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness."
"Beware of destructive individuals whose spirits breathe every day the worst toxic oxygen of the soul, "SALIGIA" Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia.No matter how much goodness, patience, understanding, assistance, forgiveness and letting go you have given them, they will resurface again and again at the doors of your home to impede your happiness.Let truth and goodness always prevail but never be again a doormat of their abusive, evil ways."
"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food."
"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
"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."
"Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system."
"When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?"
"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."
"Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain."
"Common sense is calculation applied to life."
"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next."
"Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves."
"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."
"Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their colour, their breathing, their timid manner, their slight resistance, that is the language nature gave them for your answer. The lips always say 'No,' and rightly so; but the tone is not always the same, and that cannot lie. Has not a woman the same needs as a man, but without the same right to make them known? Her fate would be too cruel if she had no language in which to express her legitimate desires except the words which she dare not utter."
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