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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something."
"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace."
"The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul."
"I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability."
"Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf."
"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."
"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."
"A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn."
"The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity."
"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?"
"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."
"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."
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."
"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
"Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child."
"It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent."
"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
"Common sense is calculation applied to life."
"Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment."
"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."
"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
"The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision."
"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."
"Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good."
"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."
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
"Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations."
"During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions."
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