"For the more a man limits himself, the……" — Stefan Zweig
"For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like."
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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 Aloof Quotes
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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as…
— Theodor Adorno
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking…
— Rajneesh
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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case…
— Franz Kafka
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There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound…
— Arthur Eddington
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Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if…
— Rajneesh
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Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just…
— Rajneesh
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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.
— Paul Newman
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But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.…
— J D Salinger
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