Swiss Philosopher Quotes

Alain de Botton
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Tariq Ramadan
Richard Tarnas

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton
Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them

Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan
We live here and now. Everything before and in other places is past. Mostly forgotten. What could, what should be done with all the time that lies ahead of us, open and unshaped, feather-light in its freedom and lead-heavy in its uncertainty? Is it a wish? Dream-like and nostalgic, to stand once again at that point in life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made us who we are?

The concept of 'tonality' signifies the unified relationship of chords to a central tonic and hence comprises two different assumptions: first, the existence of unifying factors, and second, the existence of, or at least the hypothetical ability to reconstruct, a tonal center.

The manifestation of Truth is a mystery of Love, just as, conversely, the content of Love is a mystery of Truth.

A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.

Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive projection of soullessness onto the cosmos by the modern self's own will to power.

Richard Tarnas
Richard Tarnas
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their own soul.