Quotes About Stefan Zweig

In Die Welt von Gestern, Stefan Zweig attributed the decline of civil order in Europe to the myth of progress.7 In all the ideologies of his day – communism, socialism, Nazism, fascism – Zweig saw the same pernicious attempt to rewrite the principles of social order in terms of a linear progression from past to future. The

There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so.

They did nothing—other than subjecting us to complete nothingness. For, as is well known, nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory.

IF I TRY TO FIND some useful phrase to sum up the time of my childhood and youth before the First World War, I hope I can put it most succinctly by calling it the Golden Age of Security.

no one would have pity on the foolish slave of his own pity.

Death is a certain refuge, never to be feared"; "Strong diseases require strong remedies", writes Montaigne

FRANZ ANTON MESMER (1733-1815) ~ You must know that the will is a powerful adjuvant in medicine. PARACELSUS

Fundamental in Hölderlin's scheme is the idea that poesy is indispensable to the world; nay, more, that it is not merely a creation within the cosmos, but itself creates the cosmos.

como advertencia para otras generaciones, redacta en esos días de soledad su última obra, al mismo tiempo la más grande, De officiis, la enseñanza de las obligaciones que el hombre independiente, el hombre moral, ha de cumplir frente a sí mismo y frente al Estado.

He saw "the nationalism as of horned cattle", of brute beasts whose highest conception was selfishness based upon a narrow interpretation of history

Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a little garden And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.