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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
"A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs."
"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."
"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
"It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy."
"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."
"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."
"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."
"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."
"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense."
"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?"
"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."
"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy."
"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."
"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."
"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."
"Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy."
"Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets."
"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."
"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."
"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
"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."
"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."
"Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good."
"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."
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