Quotes by Swiss authors

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Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are"

Paul Tournier, Author

"Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves"

Paul Tournier, Author

"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"

Paul Tournier, Author

"Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual"

Paul Tournier, Author

"At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance"

Paul Tournier, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"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"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you"

Elias Canetti, Author

"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Most religions do not make men better, only warier"

Elias Canetti, Author

"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes"

Elias Canetti, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous"

Elias Canetti, Author

"People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation"

Elias Canetti, Author

"One should use praise to recognize what one is not"

Elias Canetti, Author

"One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it"

Elias Canetti, Author

"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams"

Elias Canetti, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Justice is horrible"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth"

Elias Canetti, Author

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