659 Quotes by Swiss authors

Swiss sayings tend to speak in a low voice, with a cool clarity shaped by Alpine hush and village-square debate. Their humor is dry, multilingual, and exacting; praise is spare, duty careful, and liberty tempered by neighborly regard. Craft over spectacle, patience over haste: wisdom that moves like a sure-footed path rather than a fanfare. Modest images of stone, water, and light recur, alongside a federal mosaic of perspectives and an ethic of reliability, restraint, and quiet daring.

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"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"Be who you are and be that well"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can"

Paul Tournier, Author

"The home should be the treasure chest of living"

Le Corbusier, Architect

"A house is a machine for living in"

Le Corbusier, Architect

"A line is a dot that went for a walk"

Paul Klee, Artist

Paul Klee

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep"

Le Corbusier, Architect

"One eye sees, the other feels"

Paul Klee, Artist

Paul Klee

"Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence"

Paracelsus, Scientist

Paracelsus

"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange"

Elias Canetti, Author

Elias Canetti

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"In my case, Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us: Something is out of tune"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Those who love to be feared fear to be loved"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever"

Niklaus Wirth, Scientist

"Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness"

Jean-Paul Marat, Politician

Jean-Paul Marat

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

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