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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now."
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
"In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet."
"In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms."
"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
"In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession."
"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."
"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."
"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."
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
"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."
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
"I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of."
"I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda."
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way."
"The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity."
"You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it."
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."
"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
"We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior."
"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
"Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart."
"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."
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