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Stefan Zweig Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“Darkness must fall before we are aware of the majesty of the stars above our heads.”
— Stefan Zweig, Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink
Tagged: Gratitude, Beauty Requires Contrast, Stars
“One must seek another certitude beyond the world, beyond the homeland; one must refuse to join the chorus of the demonically and create one’s own homeland, one’s own world, outside the present time.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: Being Otherworldly In The World, Citadels Beyond, Outside of Time
“In our time, the miracles of technology have morphed into the most horrific elements of destruction, so elements of the Renaissance and humanism which at first seemed to offer salvation proved a lethal poison.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne
Tagged: Where The Saving Power Grows, Progression of Progress, The Essence of Technology, Impossible Progress
“We too need to stand the test, to endure one of the most horrifying collapses of humanity, which follows directly one of its most magnificent periods of advancement.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: Part and Parcel, Zeniths of Civilization, Civilization and Barbarism
“When you bar the door to the Devil, he usually forces his way in down the chimney or through a back entrance.”
— Stefan Zweig, The Society of the Crossed Keys
Tagged: strategy
“The first lesson — great men are always the kindest. The second lesson was that they nearly always lead the simplest lives.”
— Stefan Zweig, Collected Stories, Stefan Zweig
Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy, The Person You'll Become, Minimalism & Simplicity
“For one of life's mysterious laws shows that we only notice the authentic and essential values when it's too late: youth, once it has fled, health at the moment it abandons us, freedom of the soul, that most precious essence, at the very moment when it is taken from us, or has already been taken.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: Youth
“For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons and precepts, but to understand how other men have acted in the past, so that he can compare his own situation with theirs.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: History, Limits of Academic Study
“Even the freest man has his bonds”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: Freedom
“When there is more space, the soul opens up.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: Clearity , Openness, The Clearing
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