Quotes by Swiss/Switzerland authors (page 5)

"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

"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?"

Elias Canetti, Author

"You can't take back an act you were able to think"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand"

Elias Canetti, Author

"The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf"

Elias Canetti, Author

"He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it"

Elias Canetti, Author

"As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do"

Elias Canetti, Author

"We are the world"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"There are thoughts we must not think"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"For a person who is dying only eternity counts"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long"

Elias Canetti, Author

"There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight"

Elias Canetti, Author

"People's fates are simplified by their names"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food"

Elias Canetti, Author

"A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice"

Elias Canetti, Author

"The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble"

Elias Canetti, Author

"There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Human life is beyond comprehension"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author