One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger… — 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
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
As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in… — 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
Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore… — 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
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
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander,… — 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
