Quotes by Swiss Authors - Page 2

The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
We tire of those pleasures we take but never of those we give.
J. Petit-Senn
Man becomes man only by the intelligence but he is man only by the heart.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Oh I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.
Johanna Spyri
To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Time wasted is a theft from God.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God to respect Time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
Arthur Honegger
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
Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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
The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
We tire of those pleasures we take but never of those we give.
J. Petit-Senn
Man becomes man only by the intelligence but he is man only by the heart.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Oh I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.
Johanna Spyri
To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Time wasted is a theft from God.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God to respect Time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
Arthur Honegger
A feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In medicine sins of commission are mortal sins of omission venial.
Theodore Tronchin
Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl G. Jung
Love is a spendthrift leaves its arithmetic at home is always 'in the red'.
Paul Scherer
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
Hermann Hesse
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.
Albert Einstein
Man is a passion which brings a will into play which works an intelligence.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Man becomes man only by his intelligence but he is man only by his heart.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened half indifferent they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
Albert Einstein
To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein