Peace Quotes by Stefan Zweig

10 Peace quotes by Stefan Zweig

Zweig’s essays often mourn conflict; this concise set highlights his yearning for a world where peace can flourish.

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On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

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We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and…

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When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization…

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“There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if…

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“But theoretical, imagined suffering is not what distresses a man and destroys his peace of mind. Only what you have seen with…

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Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when…

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Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord…

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“And although our time gave me the opportunity like anyone else, I never got my hands on the property or assets of…

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The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and…

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“Madness,” he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. “Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again!” War once again, war that had so…

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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…

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“Live and let live” was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the categorical imperatives,…

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“Değerli olan her zaman için gerçeğin yarısı değil, tamamıdır.”

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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…

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Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing;…

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There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

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No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

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Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes…

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It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by…

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“The truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching.…

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