"Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're……" — Stefan Zweig
"Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?"
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53 Quotes by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig has 53 quotes on this site.
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Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once…
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Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly…
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I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I…
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All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among…
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Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.
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All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea.…
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Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to…
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Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for…
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The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
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When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed…
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There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of…
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One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
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More Beethoven Quotes
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to…
— Jack Black
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven…
— Johannes Brahms
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When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can…
— Dave Brubeck
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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.
— George Carlin
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All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to…
— H. L. Mencken
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You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.
— Deepak Chopra
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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
— Henry Adams
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