His ideas have had a great influence on the development of European society; If you are interested in knowing his way of thinking, this is selection of phrases by Stefan Zweig it will like you.
1. Sometimes it is nothing more than a very thin door that separates children from what we call the real world and a little wind can open it.
Children need to mature in their time.
2. All science comes from pain.
For Zweig, pain is the most inspiring emotion.
3. It is not enough to think about death, but it must always be before you. Then life becomes more solemn, more important, more fruitful and joyful.
The only way to live to the fullest is to accept the arrival of death.
4. Those who announce that they fight for God are always the least peaceful men on Earth.
Thousands of wars and massacres have been carried out “in the name of God.”
5. Pain always seeks the cause of things, while well-being is inclined to be still and not look back.
For the writer, it is when we are restless that we can improve.
6. Nothing makes people more unnatural and insubordinate than long and constant idleness.
People without entertainment or a job become arrogant.
7. In pain one becomes more and more sensitive.
Understanding another’s pain leads us to generate empathy.
8. Books are only written to, above our own breath, unite human beings, and thus defend ourselves against the inexorable reverse of all existence: transience and oblivion.
All literature has the objective of uniting people regardless of their differences.
9. It is not until we realize that we mean something to others that we feel that there is a goal or purpose to our existence.
Sometimes we see our value when another person recognizes it.
10. And slowly, from his dark fear something began to emerge that was not yet happiness, but an amazement at the diversity of life.
There are exciting moments that take away the discomfort of life.
11. He jealously takes his secrets to the cold land, to subsist as a secret in all scruples and darkness, an always hermetic, impenetrable figure.
There are secrets that go to the grave.
12. Fate has condemned me with an unbribable look, a hard look, but a fragile heart.
Do you think destiny is something already written?
13. This game belongs to all peoples and all times.
A role play within society.
14. Everything extraordinary and indomitable in our existence is captured only by inner concentration, by a sublime monomania sacredly related to madness.
The valuable things we have are what is inside us.
15. Well, the fact of being able to have a valuable book in your hands meant to Mendel what an encounter with a woman meant to others…
Books can mean a radical change in someone’s life.
16. The lie shamelessly spreads its wings and the truth has been outlawed.
Lies always travel faster than the truth. Although it doesn’t last forever.
17. History does not have time to be fair. As a cold chronicler, he only takes into account the results.
History is written through the facts that stand out the most.
18. There are many who love; There are very few who know how to love.
Love is free and not selfish. Something that many still do not understand.
19. Only the person who has tasted light and darkness, war and peace, falling and rising, only that person has truly experienced life.
Everything in life is important, both the good times and the bad.
20. Doubt is the mother of ideas; only the ignorant and the fanatics never hesitate.
Doubt is what drives us to continue developing.
21. In the decisive moment, nothing is so enormous in moral superiority over others as having hardened the soul beforehand by pain.
Overcoming pain leads us to develop unbreakable strength.
22. Only misfortune gives a deep and extensive look at the reality of the world.
A call for attention to the careless actions of human beings.
23. I think it is better to end at a good time.
Even to close a cycle, you have to take your time and do it right.
24. The spiritual man should not join any party.
Religion should stay away from politics.
25. But calling it a game, isn’t it insultingly limiting?
Reflections on the destiny that some people choose.
26. This game belongs to all peoples and all times and no one can know which divinity gave it to the Earth to kill boredom, sharpen the spirit and stimulate the soul.
We never know for sure where we are headed.
27. So now I am a being from nowhere, a stranger in all; guest, at best.
Talking about the time he had to defect from Germany.
28. One must be convinced to convince, have enthusiasm to stimulate others.
You can’t motivate others if you don’t believe in what you are doing.
29. No guilt is forgotten as long as the conscience remembers it.
Conscience sooner or later becomes our executioner, for all the acts we have committed.
30. Only those whom fate has struck can truly be helped with love.
Not everyone deserves a chance to be helped.
31. There are two kinds of compassion. One, the weak and sentimental one, which is not exactly compassion, but rather an instinctive defense of the soul against the pain of others.
Many confuse compassion with pity.
32. This is how wars are always born: from a game with dangerous words, from a super-excitement of national passions; and so do political crimes.
Wars are an example of intolerance between governments, which has nothing to do with their people.
33. It is not enough to be independent, you must learn to make others depend on you.
Dependencies are not always good, because they can consume you.
34. What do we live for, if the wind behind our shoes is already carrying away our last footprints?
Reflections on the end of our days.
35. In life, destinies are almost always separate: those who understand are not the executors, and those who act do not understand.
Two destinations that we tend to choose blindly.
36. These individuals simply move at the impulse of a magical force; A force impels them before they have time to realize their foolish recklessness.
About the almost impulsive bravery that some people show.
37. Everything existed only if it was related to you, my whole life only made sense if it was linked to you.
The worst despair is that which arises after a breakup.
38. It will also always be necessary for there to be someone who highlights what unites people instead of separating them and renews in the heart of humanity the credibility of the idea of ​​a more humane future era.
It is necessary to highlight more strongly the things that unite us, instead of looking for excuses that divide us.
39. I don’t blame you, I love you just the way you are, hot and distracted, forgetful, devoted and unfaithful, I love you like this, just like this, as you have always been and as you still are.
Should we love someone with all their flaws?
40. Only the encyclopedic genius is a novelist, in the ultimate and supreme sense of this word.
What exists behind novelists.
41. Then, for the first time, I had the feeling of speaking for myself and for the time.
The moment of courage when opposing the Nazi intervention.
42. Time, however, has a profound force and old age a singular power to reduce the intensity of feelings.
With old age, we learn to value things more for their essence than for their superficiality.
43. In moments of violent tension, it often gives individuals attitudes of such extremely tragic expression that neither image nor word could reproduce them with sufficient intensity.
A tension that shows the helplessness of people for not knowing what to do.
44. If I know any art, it is knowing how to give up.
It is important to know when to leave a fight for our own good.
45. There is no happiness for those who have not traveled the path of pain.
People who do not appreciate sacrifices do not place enough value on things.
46. ​​Ports and stations are my passion.
The way he distracts himself and sees the beauty of the world.
47. As long as there are men in need of joy… Dickens’s novels will also return incessantly.
For avid readers, books by their favorite authors are comforting.
48. In history, the moments in which reason and reconciliation prevail are brief and fleeting.
Unfortunately, there are more stories of conflict than of times of peace.
49. Man reveals himself in conversation not only by what he says, but by everything he remains silent.
Silence can also be a sign of complicity in injustice.
50. One always comes back, but then one has already forgotten.
Even if you return to your past places, you will never have the same feelings.
51. They were no longer two rivals who wanted to measure their own strength in the game, they were now two enemies who had sworn to annihilate each other.
When two people, in their ambition, end up destroying each other.
52. Fear is worse than punishment, because this is something concrete and whether greater or lesser.
Fear is something that we carry around forever if we do not face it.
53. Gratitude makes us happy because the occasions on which it becomes visible to us are rare.
Ml never stop being grateful for the things you have, even if they are small.
54. The beautiful dream of insinuation, which only desires and does not dare to demand, which only promises and does not give.
Loves that never materialize.
55. There is nothing in the world that is comparable to the secret love of a girl who remains in the shadows and has little hope.
A platonic love that remains like a stake in the heart.
56. Only lonely children can accumulate all their loves.
Lonely children may have a better understanding of the world around them.
57. Responsibility almost always confers greatness on human beings.
Responsibility not only makes us educated, but is a sign of our value.
58. Waves, no matter how high and powerful their crests, will eventually collapse on themselves.
People can fall under the weight of their greed.
59. I do not regret that, of a thousand written pages, eight hundred end up in the trash and only two hundred are preserved as quintessence.
It’s not about accumulating a large amount, but rather ensuring that what you do is of quality.
60. In that single second perhaps he came closer to the truth than you have in your entire life.
There are those who do not want to see the truth and that is why they do not appreciate it when they find it.
61. There is nothing more unbearable than spending an entire life obsessed by a single point, by a single day of existence.
A life that is marked by bitterness and conformism.
62. My goal would be more than becoming a famous critic or literary celebrity, but rather being a moral authority.
A man who sought to give voice to various social causes.
63. Universal artist who… models an entire cosmos with his hands; that, next to the earthly world, he builds his own world with its own laws of gravitation…
Artists have a mysticism in their hands that no one understands.
64. Wanting to play against oneself represents, ultimately, a paradox as great as wanting to jump over one’s own shadow.
Why have ourselves as enemies if we can be our best version?
65. There is nothing more terrible than loneliness among people.
A feeling of emptiness and lack of understanding that is difficult to counteract.
66. And that was precisely what they wanted, to make me more and more intoxicated with my own thoughts, until I couldn’t take it anymore and had to spit them out, vomit, and had to confess.
Confessions that are forced out, even if they end up being distorted.
67. For me you were everything, my whole life.
People we love and represent our entire world and destroy it when they are gone.
68. Can it be explained that certain individuals, who do not even know how to swim, try to jump from the top of a bridge to save someone who is drowning?
That instinct of urgency in response to the need of the other.
69. Each port, each ship carries a different cargo. They are the world in our cities.
The charm I saw in the ports.
70. One of those pure beings, idealists and believers, who tend to cause more evil with their faith and shed more blood with their idealism than the most brutal politicians and the most ferocious tyrants.
They are the most terrible people and the ones we must take care of.
71. No vice and no brutality on earth have shed as much blood as human cowardice.
Out of cowardice, nations have turned against each other, instead of opting for peace.
72. The only one that counts is the one devoid of sentimentality, willing to endure with patience and resignation until her last strength and even beyond.
There are times when we must put our feelings aside and focus on finding a rational solution.
73. Only they know how to love and be loved as one should love: with gratitude and humility.
Very few people understand this type of true heat.
74. I have also lost my homeland itself, the one that my heart had chosen, Europe, from the moment it committed suicide by tearing itself apart in two fratricidal wars.
Lamenting the fate of the conflictive Europe of the 20th century.
75. You transformed my entire existence.
Stay with the person who helps you evolve.
76. You did not recognize me, neither then nor at any other time, you have never recognized me.
Not all relationships are true.
77. His kingdom is that of justice, which is everywhere above all dispute.
Justice is the faith that moves the world to seek a correct and adequate solution.
78. Standing a life in which intellectual work meant the purest joy and personal freedom the most precious asset on Earth.
A life where you can achieve happiness in a simple way.
79. The sum of all resistance is the only one that always gives the measure of poverty and the man who carries it out.
There is a point at which it is not possible to endure the same situation any longer.
80. Every shadow is, after all, a daughter of light.
Positive and negative things are part of the cycle of life.
81. The surest measure of all force is the resistance it overcomes.
Resistance in the face of obstacles, instead of letting yourself be overcome by them.
82. Every delicacy produces a healthy effect on us.
A quiet thing is not full of extravagant luxuries.
83. Repressed passions, like other natural elements, tend to erupt at the least expected point.
When we do something we don’t love, sooner or later we get upset about it.
84. The sewers are open and men breathe their pestilence like perfume.
About being carried away by the misdeeds of society, which make no sense.
85. One of the mysterious laws of life is that we always discover its authentic and most essential values ​​late.
We learn to value things when they are no longer there.
86. I stayed seated, with a book in my hands, entire afternoons, for months and years…
A book is the greatest treasure of those who appreciate reading.
87. The time had passed when I could deceive myself about the provisional nature of everything I started.
False promises lose their power over time.
88. Youth, when it disappears; health, as soon as it leaves us, and freedom, that most precious essence of our soul, only when it is about to be taken from us or has already been taken from us.
Speaking of the regret that comes to all of us when youth leaves.
89. The voluptuousness of the still alive effusion strangely shone in her gaze, like that of a woman who has just freed herself from a powerful embrace.
When we find our value, we put ourselves before any circumstance.
90. He who has no country possesses the world, he who has detached himself from everything possesses his entire life and he who is without guilt enjoys peace.
Patriotism can also be a prison that prevents us from accepting the diversities of the world.
91. Each season is different, each one carries within itself a different distance.
Each season has its particular charm.
92. Of all those people, the most worthy of pity for me… were those who had no homeland or, worse still, those who, instead of one homeland, had two or three and did not know which one they belonged to.
About the pain of having to leave his nation forever.
93. There is nothing more terrible than being alone when you are surrounded by people.
A feeling of emptiness that is almost impossible to fill, as it comes from within.
94. The first sign of an authentic political vocation is, at all times, that a man renounces from the beginning to demand that which is unattainable for him.
Politicians must have realistic aspirations and demonstrate their commitment to the people.
95. It is suffering that prepares and tills the ground for the soul, and the pain that the plow produces by tearing the interior, prepares all spiritual fruit.
Could it be that we grow better by going through different sufferings?
96. And I believe that if you called me when I was already resting on my deathbed, I would have enough strength to get up and go to you.
The love that remains beyond death.
97. The good is not forgotten. I will never forget you.
The things that mark us in a positive way become pleasant memories.
98. Love is like wine, and like wine too, it comforts some and destroys others.
Not everyone finds the love they want to have.
99. Because they believe they perceive heavenly messages, their ears are deaf to every word of humanity.
The arrogance of people who believe they are false spiritual leaders.
100. Old age means nothing more than stopping suffering from the past.
A moment when we can finally detach ourselves from everything unnecessary.
