909 quotes by swiss authors for you to enjoy

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan. Paracelsus

Smith Process Founder Alchemy

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. Paul Klee

Work Art Remember Looking Significant More Sacrificed Had Any

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company. Peter Zumthor

Me Relationship Plants Like Make Becomes Quiet Closer Company

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. Peter Zumthor

Time Great Gardening Garden Simple Walls Long Seen Long Time Believe Every Think Setting Every Time Intimacy Stay See Magical Architectural Columns Buildings Sheltered Surrounded Where Want Place Places Turns Gardens Imagine

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study. Philip Schaff

Class Bible Culture Simple Matter Men Style Every Religious General Study Inexhaustible Child Grade Wants Nourishment Thinker Profoundest Adapted

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis. Roger Federer

Life Best Me You Give Something Tennis Up Want Really

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper. Roger Federer

Blame Lost Too Tennis Had Tennis Player Like Because Goalkeeper Lot Won Soccer Really Stand Enjoyed Played Player Position

I have learnt to be even more patient. Roger Federer

Patient More Learnt Even

The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises. Saint Francis de Sales

Love Thoughts Natural Passion Those Almost Praises Hearts Mouths Human Moved Full Human Love Filled Fastened Beloved

Everything is always feasible if you run a corporate finance exercise: you can always try to come out with a justification on how things could work. But the real issue is to say how do you translate that into practice. Sergio Ermotti

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better. Stan Wawrinka

Positive Work Home You Win Better Losing Defeat Every Back Unless Out Week Take Tennis Tennis Player Tournament Fail Always Go Loser Go Home Improve Get Used Player

Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. Tariq Ramadan

History Diversity Country Rich Other Unlike Promise Religious Make Malaysia Surprising Cultural Any Land Full Compelling Fragility

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it. Tariq Ramadan

Life Music Control Films Our We Cannot Impact Emotional Emotional Life Messages Advertising Because Subliminal Cannot Even Conscious

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment. Tariq Ramadan

Giving Master Our Alive Ourselves Must Reconcile Through Outside Step Environment Mastery Rediscover Around Educate Egoism Us Requires Fasting

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality. Tariq Ramadan

Spirituality Month Essence Humanist

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility. Tariq Ramadan

Work Humility Only Through Self-Critical Towards Ideas Learn Opposition Intellectual

It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination. Tariq Ramadan

Market Highest Importance Equal Employment Access Equitable Provide Governments Discrimination Labour Establish Racial Should Act Standards

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends. Tariq Ramadan

Fear Political Become Increasing Mindset Emotional Part Also Reactions Frequency Accompanying Often Being Ends Legitimate While Public Exploited

Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas. Yves Behar

Our Adoption New Ideas Principal Accelerate New Ideas Role Designers

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn. Albert Hofmann

Time Day Eyes Wonderful Closed Enjoy Pleasure Fine Some Colors Observe Like Felt Fresh Began Quite After Newborn Which Forms Then Really Next Play Sleep

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it. Alberto Giacometti

Loneliness People Thought Past Think Must About Fact Never Talk So Many People In The Past Working Reason Many Now

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. Alberto Giacometti

Master Down See Could Disappointing Terms Always Form Little Really

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. Alexandre Vinet

Courage Christian Sorrow Resignation

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