371 Quotes by Stefan Zweig

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the spirit of the time chooses a human being as its prototype and raising this single individual, often one upon whom it has chanced to come, far beyond his measure, the spirit enthuses itself for its own enthusiasm.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it while he himselfremained in the shadow as the source of light always does. But he who points the way into a new era is no less worthy of veneration than he who is the first to enter it; those who work invisibly have also accomplished a feat.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life.