“What a man has taken into his bloodstream in childhood from the air of that time stays with him.” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“He is at one and the same time all and nothing, always different and yet ever the same, the Montaigne of 1550,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which… — 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… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“He has the sense that up to this moment his life has been a sham; he yearns to live properly, to reflect… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“What Montaigne seeks is his interior self, that which cannot submit to state, to family, to time, to circumstances, to money, to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“At the moment when his soul brimmed with bitterness and disgust, when his spirit was darkened, he encountered a woman, a stranger…… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“She did what is the most dangerous thing anyone can do in politics; she discoursed without having the most remote acquaintance with… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“And although our time gave me the opportunity like anyone else, I never got my hands on the property or assets of… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time;… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a… — 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
