Quotes by Swiss authors

"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man"

"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is"

"Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite"

"The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity"

"St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit"

"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation"

"At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863"

"Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song"

"The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity"

"Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance"

"It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first"

"If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other"

"I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since"

"I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879"