Stefan Zweig Quotes
"One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Enthusiasm)
"Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Gods, Deed, Fate)
"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: History, Moments, Reason)
"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Conscience, World)
"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Art, Power, Work, Time, Forbidden, Will)
"Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: England, Now, World)
"Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: History, Energy, Mind)
"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Life, War, Peace, Darkness, Light)
"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Earth, Party, Spirit, Will)
"The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Idea, Unity)
"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Sacrifice, Sense)
"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Desperation, Disappointment, Language, Living, Misery, Today, Writers)
"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Peace, War, Force)
"Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself."
- Stefan Zweig
"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."
- Stefan Zweig
(Related: Misfortune, Understanding, World)