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219 Swiss Quotes

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

Light Darkness Purpose Being
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Change Liberate Accept Oppresses
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Pain Coming Conscious Without
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Debt Play Owe Imagination
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Rest Error Truth Knowledge
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Vain Intellect Hand Mystery
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Look Depend Thing How
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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.

Hang Talent Dangerous Great
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Inferno Pass Through Passion
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Heart Enough Brilliant Gratitude
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Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Power Love Shadow Rule
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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.

Love Play Creative Mind
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The rational attitude which permits us to declare objective values as valid at all is not the work of the individual subject, but the product of human history.

Human Subject Declare Rational
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Least Life Worth Greatest
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To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Right Problem Solution Ask
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To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Dream Part Nature Intention
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The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.

Passive Capacity Intuition Intellect
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Between Human Qualities Little
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I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Fact Individual Mind Avoid
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality.

Power Rest Turn Moral
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whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Apply Good Lacking Supply
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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves.

Compel Create Subtitute External
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A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

Dream Remain Understood Mere
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A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Special Ability Heavy Energy
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Pretend Understand World Intellect
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If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
Lonely Knows Man Becomes
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I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal.

Regret Follies Sprang Obstinacy
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As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Change Begin Single Individual
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Greatest Important Problem Outgrown
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When we consider the infinite variety of dreams, it is difficult to conceive that there could ever be a method or a technical procedure which would lead to an infallible result. It is, indeed, a good thing that no valid method exists for otherwise the meaning of the dream would be limited in advance and would lose precisely that virtue which makes dreams so valuable for therapeutic purposes – their ability to offer new points of view.

Infinite Dream Conceive Procedure
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Either Everything Makes Poison
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Better Cases Composed Doubtful
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Because Earth Elements Extract
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Artistic Artists Been Desired
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Art Dreams Great GreatArt
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Another Breath Causes Flow
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Art Healing Mind Must
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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.

Create Desires Earth Flows
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Also Art Before Consist
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Alchemy Although Considered Contempt
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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

Body Created Cures Greater
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Come Dreams Elements Fantasy
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
Accepted Come Dreams Great
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

Bread Daily DailyBread Grants
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

Another Bread Country Different
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Alone Anyone Awakening Back
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

About Account Basis Distress
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Aim Alchemy Consider Gold
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Alchemy Astronomy Ethics Four
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Also Bean Fig Gold
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