Quotes by Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

(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 there isn’t any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.

Christian

Freedom

Jobs

(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.

Education

Learning

Notebook

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings – they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

Firsts

Rich

Sweet

A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.

Fall

Grace

Neighbor

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Atmosphere

Historical

Significance

Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband’s innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband’s strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband’s nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.

Dark

Giving

Husband

Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humankind will never be able to live and work without this consoling delusion of its ascent into morality, without this dream of final and ultimate accord.

Dream

Faith

Peace

Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

History

Intellectual

Suffering

Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.

Emotion

Feelings

Moving

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

Humans

Knows

Terrible

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Achievement

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Age

Ambition

Animal

Anxiety

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Atmosphere

Authority

Beautiful

Believe

Betrayal

Blessing

Blood

Book

Brave

Breathing

Brutality

Change

Chaos

Character

Childhood

Children

Christian

Coincidence

Collapse

Community

Compassion

Confused

Conquer The World

Contentment

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Convinced

Coward

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Darkness

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Quotes by Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings – they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humankind will never be able to live and work without this consoling delusion of its ascent into morality, without this dream of final and ultimate accord.

Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

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