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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"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

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"Be who you are and be that well"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"One eye sees, the other feels"

Paul Klee, Artist

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"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"A line is a dot that went for a walk"

Paul Klee, Artist

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"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"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"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"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"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

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"The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"The home should be the treasure chest of living"

Le Corbusier, Architect

"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

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"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"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

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"On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"A house is a machine for living in"

Le Corbusier, Architect

"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange"

Elias Canetti, Author

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"Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law"

Louis Agassiz, Scientist

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can"

Paul Tournier, Author

"The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being"

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theologian

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

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"Any landscape is a condition of the spirit"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

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"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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"Those who love to be feared fear to be loved"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

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"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

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"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep"

Le Corbusier, Architect

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