Psychology Quotes by Stefan Zweig

9 Psychology quotes by Stefan Zweig

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Zweig’s eloquent prose condenses into nine short lines that explore the delicate interplay of feeling and thought in everyday life.

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Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail…

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The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are…

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

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Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to…

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Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore…

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“Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only your living,…

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“But is it not already an insult to call chess anything so narrow as a game? Is it not also a science,…

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Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.…

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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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“And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I…

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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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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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