--- title: "12 Firsts Quotes By Stefan Zweig" description: "12 Firsts quotes by Stefan Zweig. Plus more from Stefan Zweig and more Firsts sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fd/stefan-zweig-811_able_it-is-a-blessing-not-yet-to-have-acquire_829025.jpg" --- > [It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/it-is-a-blessing-not-yet-to-have-acquired-that-over-keen-diagnostic/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fd/stefan-zweig-811_able_it-is-a-blessing-not-yet-to-have-acquire_829025.jpg) > [In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/in-this-instant-shaken-to-her-very-depths-this-ecstatic-human-being/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ae/stefan-zweig-811_bigs_in-this-instant-shaken-to-her-very-depth_1053449.jpg) > [Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/everything-in-life-that-deviates-from-the-straight-and-so-to-speak/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/stefan-zweig-811_conformity_everything-in-life-that-deviates-from-th_2725418.jpg) > [A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/a-first-premonition-of-the-rich-variety-of-life-had-come-to-him-for/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c53/stefan-zweig-811_first-time_a-first-premonition-of-the-rich-variety_1071322.jpg) > [Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/dostoevsky-was-the-first-to-reveal-to-us-this-teeming-multiplicity-of/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44c/stefan-zweig-811_complexity_dostoevsky-was-the-first-to-reveal-to-us_2903259.jpg) > [With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/with-nietzsche-the-black-pirates-flag-appears-for-the-first-time-on/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/011/stefan-zweig-811_armor_with-nietzsche-the-black-pirates-flag-ap_2129718.jpg) > [Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/erasmus-was-the-light-of-his-century-others-were-its-strength-he/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/090/stefan-zweig-811_accomplished_erasmus-was-the-light-of-his-century-oth_1267866.jpg) > [Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/names-have-a-mysterious-transforming-power-like-a-ring-on-a-finger-a/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65b/stefan-zweig-811_change_names-have-a-mysterious-transforming-pow_111189.jpg) > [(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/heinrich-von-kleist-would-not-be-a-prussian-if-his-first-thought/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38d/stefan-zweig-811_book_heinrich-von-kleist-would-not-be-a-pruss_1824828.jpg) > [Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/decisive-inventions-and-discoveries-always-are-initiated-by-an/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f03/stefan-zweig-811_action_decisive-inventions-and-discoveries-alwa_1444380.jpg) > [Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/every-epoch-which-seeks-renewal-first-projects-its-ideal-into-a-human/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/004/stefan-zweig-811_change_every-epoch-which-seeks-renewal-first-pr_1316963.jpg) > [This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/this-is-the-first-time-in-history-that-a-war-has-involved-the-whole/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/804/stefan-zweig-811_certain_this-is-the-first-time-in-history-that-a_226977.jpg) ## Other authors on Firsts ## More by Stefan Zweig > [“Madness,” he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. “Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again!” War once again, war that had so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/madness-he-exclaimed-to-himself-in-astonishment-faltering-madness/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/it-is-never-until-one-realizes-that-one-means-something-to-others/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [“And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/and-if-i-am-asked-today-to-advise-a-young-writer-who-has-not-yet-made/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [“Live and let live” was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the categorical imperatives,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/live-and-let-live-was-the-famous-viennese-motto-which-today-still/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [“Değerli olan her zaman için gerçeğin yarısı değil, tamamıdır.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/de-erli-olan-her-zaman-i-in-ger-e-in-yar-s-de-il-tamam-d-r/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/one-never-gets-to-know-a-person-s-character-better-than-by-watching/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/names-have-a-mysterious-transforming-power-like-a-ring-on-a-finger-a/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/there-is-no-sense-to-a-sacrifice-after-you-come-to-feel-that-it-is-a/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/no-guilt-is-forgotten-so-long-as-the-conscience-still-knows-of-it/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/nothing-that-has-ever-been-thought-and-said-with-a-clear-mind-and/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/it-is-the-way-of-youth-that-each-fresh-piece-of-knowledge-of-life/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [“The truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/the-truths-that-he-finds-may-in-the-coming-months-or-even-the-coming/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/the-union-of-opposites-in-so-far-as-they-are-really-complementary/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/the-sight-of-a-wedding-always-has-a-disturbing-effect-on-young-girls/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) > [“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/lightly-caressingly-marie-antoinette-picked-up-the-crown-as-a-gift-2/) [Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/firsts/stefan-zweig/#itemlist", "name": "12 Firsts Quotes By Stefan Zweig", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stefan Zweig" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/it-is-a-blessing-not-yet-to-have-acquired-that-over-keen-diagnostic/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fd/stefan-zweig-811_able_it-is-a-blessing-not-yet-to-have-acquire_829025.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fd/stefan-zweig-811_able_it-is-a-blessing-not-yet-to-have-acquire_829025.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fd/stefan-zweig-811_able_it-is-a-blessing-not-yet-to-have-acquire_829025.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to…” — Stefan Zweig", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stefan Zweig" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/in-this-instant-shaken-to-her-very-depths-this-ecstatic-human-being/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ae/stefan-zweig-811_bigs_in-this-instant-shaken-to-her-very-depth_1053449.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ae/stefan-zweig-811_bigs_in-this-instant-shaken-to-her-very-depth_1053449.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ae/stefan-zweig-811_bigs_in-this-instant-shaken-to-her-very-depth_1053449.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is…” — Stefan Zweig", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stefan Zweig" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/everything-in-life-that-deviates-from-the-straight-and-so-to-speak/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/stefan-zweig-811_conformity_everything-in-life-that-deviates-from-th_2725418.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/stefan-zweig-811_conformity_everything-in-life-that-deviates-from-th_2725418.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/stefan-zweig-811_conformity_everything-in-life-that-deviates-from-th_2725418.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious…” — Stefan Zweig", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; 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