Quotes from zweig stefan

And so it was that the two of us, out of a shared and confused hatred, performed an act that looked like love, but while our bodies sought each other and came together we were both thinking and speaking of him all the time, of nothing but him.

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.

If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.

All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture.

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy.

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

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.

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

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?

Pues la ambición sólo se inflama ante lo azaroso del éxito y el logro fácil, pero nada eleva el corazón de modo tan espléndido como la caída de un hombre en lucha contra el predominio invencible del destino. Esa es la más grandiosa tragedia de todos los tiempos, la que de cundo en cuando logra crear algún poeta, y la vida miles de veces.

Bize dokunmad?lar ama ama en boÅŸ yere yerleÅŸtirdiler, zira hiçlik kadar insan bünyesine a??r gelen bir ÅŸey yoktur.

Dizleri titremeye baÅŸlad?: BÄ°R KÄ°TAP! Dört ayd?r elime kitap almam??t?m ve içinde insan?n ard arda s?ralanm?? sözcükler, sat?rlar, sayfalar ve yapraklar görebileceÄŸi, baÅŸka, yeni, ÅŸa??rt?c? düÅŸünceleri okuyabileceÄŸi, tan?yabileceÄŸi, beynini alabileceÄŸi bir kitab?n hayali bile insan? hem coÅŸturuyor hem de uyuÅŸturuyordu.

Sólo la mitad de la acción es obra nuestra: el principio y el final, la causa y el efecto, pertenecen a los dioses.

La politique n'est pas, comme on veut absolument le faire croire, l'art de conduire l'opinion publique, mais bien la façon dont les chefs s'inclinent en esclaves devant les courants qu'eux-mêmes ont créés et orientés.

Grazie a lui mi ero avvicinato per la prima volta al grande mistero, ovvero al fatto che, se mai nella nostra esistenza riusciamo ad attingere qualcosa di speciale, qualcosa di più elevato, ciò accade solo al prezzo di una particolare concentrazione interiore, di una paranoia sublime e, nella sua sacralità, affine alla follia.