Quotes by Swiss Authors

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.
C.G. Jung
There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.
Alain de Botton
When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us
Alain de Botton
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
C.G. Jung
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
By the time the Freedom Flights, to use the US description, came to an end, more than 260,000 Cubans had been airlifted to the United States, every one of them registered by the Swiss before they left Cuba.
Clare O'Dea
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
Albert Einstein
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How do I work? I grope.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.
Hermann Hesse
How few our real wants and how vast our imaginary ones!
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
Carl Jung
If you are out to describe the truth leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The present moment is creative creating with an unheard-of intensity.
Le Corbusier
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.
Jakob Burckhardt
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
J. Petit-Senn
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung
A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man however should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein
A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped for everything cannot be equally considered in a word he must be able to simplify his duties his business and his life.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
Hermann Hesse
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.
Tina Turner
We should know what our convictions are and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy conscious or unconscious depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is so will be his ultimate truth.
Carl Jung
Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
Carl Jung
E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.
Albert Einstein
It is the theory which decided what can be observed.
Albert Einstein
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
Technology - the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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 a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Very frequently feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life and how we ought to have done it or as if under compulsion we make up strings of causal connections. We like to call this thinking though on the contrary it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive a form that really leads only to self-torture.
Emma Jung
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross