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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."
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"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."
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"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand."
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"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."
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"People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies."
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"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."
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"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
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"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."
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"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."
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"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."
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"A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs."
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"Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next."
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
"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."
"The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper."
"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone."
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
"For a person who is dying only eternity counts."
"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."
"There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying."
"Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true."
"Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves."
"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."
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