But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the… — 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
Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a… — 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
In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with… — 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
