Quotes by Swiss authors

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases"

"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever"

"I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living"

"I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio"

"It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person"

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers"

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes"

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses"

"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown"

"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate"

"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity"

"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more"

"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition"

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves"

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also"

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people"

"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts"

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves"

"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order"

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool"

"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life"

"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"

"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own"

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves"

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism"

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity"

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being"

"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination"

"A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment"