Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you… — 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
It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood… — 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
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
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
