People Quotes by Stefan Zweig

8 People quotes by Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig’s eight short reflections on people showcase his elegant prose and psychological insight. Even with a limited number, each line feels like a polished vignette of human experience.

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Happy people are poor psychologists.

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The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its…

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He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone…

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It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people…

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All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more…

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Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?

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Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

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(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere…

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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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The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is…

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The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own…

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“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for…

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