Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
But in the intellectual world, there is room for all opposing forces: even that which never appears victorious in the real world… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Madness,” he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. “Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again!” War once again, war that had so… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“Live and let live” was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the categorical imperatives,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments… It is always only danger which forces… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing;… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“The truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
