Quotes by swiss authors

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. Paracelsus

Work Man Earth Immensity Something He New Him Greater Were Than Heaven Create Desires Flows

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves. Paul Tournier

Religion Endeavor Live Others Ourselves Seek Us Let Us Bring

To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit. Saint Francis de Sales

Love Live Spirit According To Love

There is always disappointment, heartache. You are losing almost every tournament. You need to just accept it and be positive because you are going to lose and fail. We're not all Nadal or Djokovic, who can win most tournaments. Stan Wawrinka

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. Alberto Giacometti

Work Art Every Sign Only Proportion Obsession Primordial Qualities Knows Always His Subject Artist Form Formal Whether Measure

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see. Alberto Giacometti

Impossible Way See More Because Get Closer Differently Thing

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone. Alberto Giacometti

Alone Myself Older Find More Grow

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. Alberto Giacometti

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do. Alberto Giacometti

Work Something Know Order Want Why

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. Alberto Giacometti

Me Once Has-Been Object Constructed Tendency Facts Been Discover Impressions Moved Which Transformed Displaced Deeply Images

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. Alice Miller

Freedom Broken Democracy You People Matter College Dare Take Never Like Know Course Because Get Hearts Your Many Ever

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation. Elias Canetti

Love Hate People Accusation

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. Elias Canetti

Made Stars Constellations Head Arranged His

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

Practice Enjoy Consider Pleasure Out Find Adult Also Very Quickly Child Deceiving Children Deception Themselves Then Figure Necessary

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see. Ella Maillart

See Something Instant Look Am Certain

Truth is always a delusion. Friedrich Durrenmatt

Truth Truth Is Delusion Always

For a person who is dying only eternity counts. Friedrich Durrenmatt

Only Counts Person Dying Eternity Who

I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Partner Build See Catalyst Generator Builder Accompanying Motivator Curator Artist While Public Sparring Creating Show Bridge

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. Hans Urs von Balthasar

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. Henri Frederic Amiel

Health Freedom First Liberties First Of All

The best path through life is the highway. Henri Frederic Amiel

Life Best Path Through Highway