Quotes by Swiss Authors - Page 3

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.
Albert Einstein
Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
Emil Brunner
Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect only once in this way and never again.
Hermann Hesse
The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Albert Einstein
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
J. Petit-Senn
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Carl Jung
To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.
Denis de Rougemont
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If my theory of relativity is proven successful Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Albert Einstein
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To love one that is great is almost to be great one's self.
Madame Necker
God is clever but not dishonest.
Albert Einstein
The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack dead we remember only those they possessed.
J. Petit-Senn
I may not amount to much but at least I am unique.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man never has what he wants because what he wants is everything.
C. F. Ramuz
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
J. Petit-Senn
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
Hermann Hesse
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
Carl Jung
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Amiel
Fame is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To win true peace a man needs to feel himself directed pardoned and sustained by a supreme power to feel himself in the right road at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
Carl Jung
Faith is obedience nothing else.
Emil Brunner
Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods.
Carl Jung
Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.
Madeleine Kunin
I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
I believe we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed word and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The worst of faces still is human.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
Gardening is an exercise in optimism.
Maria Schinz
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
Hermann Hesse
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
How then find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness spontaneity instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
We must have the courage to be happy.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau