654 Quotes by Swiss authors

Swiss sayings tend to speak in a low voice, with a cool clarity shaped by Alpine hush and village-square debate. Their humor is dry, multilingual, and exacting; praise is spare, duty careful, and liberty tempered by neighborly regard. Craft over spectacle, patience over haste: wisdom that moves like a sure-footed path rather than a fanfare. Modest images of stone, water, and light recur, alongside a federal mosaic of perspectives and an ethic of reliability, restraint, and quiet daring.

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"Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"There is no art without Eros"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future"

H. R. Giger, Artist

H. R. Giger

"I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20"

Ursula Andress, Actress

Ursula Andress

"I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of"

Fritz Zwicky, Scientist

Fritz Zwicky

"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better"

Ella Maillart, Writer

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts"

Peter Bichsel, Writer

Peter Bichsel

"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened"

Francesco Borromini, Architect

"Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!"

Felix Bloch, Scientist

"Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"The only substance properly so called is the soul"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"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"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"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"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"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"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong"

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

"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

Carl Jung

"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen"

Paul Klee, Artist

Paul Klee

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