Quotes by Swiss authors

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"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

"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations"

Elias Canetti, Author

"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about"

Elias Canetti, Author

"The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves"

Elias Canetti, Author

"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

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

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"We are the world"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"There are thoughts we must not think"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"For a person who is dying only eternity counts"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"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

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