Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweigwas an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 November 1881
CountryAustria
memories want remember
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
disappointment writing german-language
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.
life war fall
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
feelings may reason
Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.
hero discovery conquer-the-world
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces
errors people trying
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.
way pieces emotion
It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.
historical atmosphere significance
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
girl sex sight
The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own sex takes possession of them.
pain passion coward
Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.
sacrifice satisfaction feels
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
world england horizon
Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
philosophical race years
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.
gratitude kings age
Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.