Stefan Zweig quote: "When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."

Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost exist...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties ...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness a...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slig...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as the...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realit...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by tim...
STEFAN ZWEIG

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

Spoločnosť je vždy najkrutejšia k tým, ktorí prezrádzajú jej tajomstvo a upozorňujú, že s...
STEFAN ZWEIG

For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly alway...
STEFAN ZWEIG

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!
STEFAN ZWEIG

But is it not already an insult to call chess anything so narrow as a game? Is it not also a science...
STEFAN ZWEIG

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against...
STEFAN ZWEIG

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
STEFAN ZWEIG

Today, as a Jew, one should not have any position or accept any honors because it is difficult to li...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no...
STEFAN ZWEIG

A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being ...
STEFAN ZWEIG

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any par...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
STEFAN ZWEIG

For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an elec...
STEFAN ZWEIG

He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt...
STEFAN ZWEIG

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he ha...
STEFAN ZWEIG

He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and i...
STEFAN ZWEIG

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

A well-chosen tie could make me almost merry; a good book, an excursion in a motor car or an hour wi...
STEFAN ZWEIG

¿Para qué vivimos, si el viento tras nuestros zapatos ya se está llevando nuestras últimas huell...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Los libros sólo se escriben para, por encima del propio aliento, unir a los seres humanos, y así d...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible h...
STEFAN ZWEIG

But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again."
"Yes" I said, "they come b...
STEFAN ZWEIG

He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he...
STEFAN ZWEIG

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she ne...
STEFAN ZWEIG

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stre...
STEFAN ZWEIG

My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will ...
STEFAN ZWEIG

There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the he...
STEFAN ZWEIG

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
STEFAN ZWEIG

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something,...
STEFAN ZWEIG

She tries to think, but the monotonous stuttering of the wheels breaks the flow of her thoughts, and...
STEFAN ZWEIG

soothing silence instead of an oppressive one.
STEFAN ZWEIG

the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city.
STEFAN ZWEIG

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to b...
STEFAN ZWEIG

soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain ...
STEFAN ZWEIG

There’s an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, m...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Maybe everything’s not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage...
STEFAN ZWEIG

In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the s...
STEFAN ZWEIG

For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, book...
STEFAN ZWEIG

In so much firm, pleasure-loving flesh, we cannot find the merest trace of a moral nervous system. T...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Moi qui pour mon malheur ai toujours eu une curiosité passionnée pour les choses de l'esprit...
STEFAN ZWEIG

آیا ساده نیست که خود را آدم مهمی بدانی وقتی سر‌سوزنی به...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Pero aun las ideas, por más insustanciales que parezcan, necesitan un punto de apoyo, de lo contrar...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Ama ne yazık ki tarihte hep aynı trajedi tekrarlanmaktadır, çünkü fikir adamları zamanı geli...
STEFAN ZWEIG

Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to ...
MARTIN ZWEIG

Generally, a rising trend in rates is bearish for stocks; a falling trend is bullish.
MARTIN ZWEIG

One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait...
MARTIN ZWEIG

The Taoists realized that no single concept or value could be considered absolute or superior. If be...
CONNIE ZWEIG

Monetary conditions exert an enormous influence on stock prices. Indeed, the monetary climate - prim...
MARTIN ZWEIG

This is a highly interdependent relationship now, much more so than it's ever been.
DAVID ZWEIG

I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smar...
MARTIN ZWEIG

We come with this built-in prediction addiction, ... Brain research [shows] that you're going to try...
JASON ZWEIG

Somehow people look at the performance of the average mutual fund manager and say, 'It's underperfor...
JASON ZWEIG

There's no doubt that a lot of this wheeling and dealing has been spurred by the lifting of many of ...
JASON ZWEIG

Mutual funds really stunk,
JASON ZWEIG

If a company has stable earnings quarter after quarter, ... and each quarter its earnings go up anot...
JASON ZWEIG

The way I like to think of day trading is that it's probably the most effective weapon ever to commi...
JASON ZWEIG

People are attracted to stocks that move. The thing that these kinds of speculators, and I'm not goi...
JASON ZWEIG

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If ...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The Word

Wonder or dream from distant land
I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE

I thought I lived in a hostile world where everything feeds on everything, but now I know that I’m...
STEFAN EMUNDS

We are all caught in natural and social frameworks, subject to an overwhelming abundance of challeng...
STEFAN EMUNDS

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.
STEFAN EDBERG

The cult of friendship disturbs me. It's like our quality is supposed to be measured by the number o...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

By far, the most determining factor of any brand is the product or the service the company produces....
STEFAN SAGMEISTER

You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis a...
STEFAN SAGMEISTER

It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me wo...
STEFAN HELL

U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to...
STEFAN SAGMEISTER

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the tru...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those w...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

I imagined there would be a way to crack the diffraction barrier. But of course I didn't know ex...
STEFAN HELL

I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in Ne...
STEFAN SAGMEISTER

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.
STEFAN SAGMEISTER

For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you woul...
STEFAN EDBERG

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'...
STEFAN SAGMEISTER

I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have t...
STEFAN EDBERG

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.
STEFAN EDBERG

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn&...
STEFAN EDBERG

Since the court will not take swift action to order union officials to inform union members of their...
STEFAN GLEASON

The law is an opinion with a gun.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if...
STEFAN SAGMEISTER

She was a very acute observer.
STEFAN KANFER

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.
STEFAN KANFER

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with...
STEFAN KANFER

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.
STEFAN KANFER

I'm always under surveillance from both the NSA, the Russian KGB, and the Bulgarian Army, so I'm the...
STEFAN D

If you were to ask Jarod Kintz‬‬‬ what his personal favourite joke was, he'd say the one with ...
STEFAN D

Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

I'm not going to lie, I was nervous, ... I knew he was open, and I just choked. That's all there is ...
STEFAN LEFORS

I'm not going to lie ? I was nervous, ... I knew he was open, and I just choked. That's all there is...
STEFAN LEFORS

I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thurs...
STEFAN SAGMEISTER

As I stumbled into confusion about what was real and what was not, the strangest thing happened: The...
STEFAN EMUNDS

Spirituality wants to know and experience higher states of mind and being. It wants to wrestle with ...
STEFAN EMUNDS

Spirituality is the realization of the totality of our being.
STEFAN EMUNDS

Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.
STEFAN EMUNDS

People are a soul-ego-spacesuit.
STEFAN EMUNDS

The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.
STEFAN EMUNDS

Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The solemn and devotional ceremonies of the Piscean Age and the fear of God will give way to a frien...
STEFAN EMUNDS

We are used to the thought that we’ll go to Heaven if we avoid sins or have our pastor remove them...
STEFAN EMUNDS

God created mankind in His image and likeness, remember? For some reason, you people always forget y...
STEFAN EMUNDS

Mankind’s happy end and people’s happy endings are inevitable.
STEFAN EMUNDS

Doomsday sells, but doesn’t ring with truth. Could it be that the Apocalypse is a personal eschato...
STEFAN EMUNDS

Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you!
STEFAN EMUNDS

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

There's this special talent that humans have that they can be unhappy no matter where they are. But ...
STEFAN BACHMANN

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious,...
STEFAN GRABIńSKI

If you have people who treat you badly in your life, they will be a human shield against people who ...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of no...
STEFAN KANFER

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessio...
STEFAN KANFER

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being abl...
STEFAN COLLINI

Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alert...
STEFAN COLLINI

A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-exam...
STEFAN COLLINI

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most i...
STEFAN COLLINI

The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-comp...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve ...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

I'm not going to lie — I was nervous, ... I knew he was open, and I just choked. That's all there ...
STEFAN LEFORS

Both of them have been great and really helpful, ... An NFL offense is a lot to learn and they've bo...
STEFAN LEFORS

I think I make things happen.
STEFAN LEFORS

There's worse things I can be called, ... But I think everyone knows I am a long way away from playi...
STEFAN LEFORS

It's strange to look around the room and see the names. I think we'll have an awesome team.
PATRIK STEFAN

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'be...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Theres nothing more efficient than honesty and nothing more powerful than vulnerability because, vul...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

SCREW CHILDREN!
That's the mantra of the world.
Instead of burying them with a national ...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to ...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

90% of relationship issues are caused by misunderstandings, 9.9% by conflicts of interest. Luckily, ...
STEFAN EMUNDS

This is always proper to do with someone who is unconscious and breathing. This also helps to clear ...
STEFAN OSCHE

Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literall...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and double...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

They were real pioneers,
STEFAN KANFER

Once people see you cry, it's like they own part of you. It's like you ripped a hole in yourself, an...
STEFAN BACHMANN

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamenta...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.
STEFAN EMUNDS

Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.
STEFAN EMUNDS

I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my b...
STEFAN BACHMANN

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

I can't even fathom myself from twenty-four hours ago. I was so busy following my rotten little hear...
STEFAN BACHMANN

The five elements are energies, not things. In Hinduism, they are known as the five tattvas. Psychic...
STEFAN EMUNDS

Our goal is to establish as many new connections to lower Manhattan as possible.
STEFAN PRYOR

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The world is an ambitious business. It continuously expands and evolves. But people are lazy and God...
STEFAN EMUNDS

Waiting for one’s execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his ex...
STEFAN EMUNDS

The world eclipses and it’s just her and him. No it’s just her eyes and his soul. Her eyes expos...
STEFAN EMUNDS

Wake up! You’re a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking.
STEFAN EMUNDS

At least I’m the one leaving. It’s so much easier to leave than to be left.
STEFAN EMUNDS

Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.
STEFAN EMUNDS

Souls spread over the planet and leave no mountain unclimbed, no valley undiscovered, no sea unsaile...
STEFAN EMUNDS

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

We are energetic beings, all we do is filling voids.
STEFAN EMUNDS

The forces that previously caused deflation in Japan are well and truly over.
STEFAN WORRALL

Our victimization in a way, can turn us into bullies because, the other person isn't doing something...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world rec...
STEFAN SAGMEISTER

We are gratified that justice has prevailed in this case.
DOROTHY STEFAN

We are gratified that justice has prevailed in this case. Our laws prohibit aliens who are living he...
DOROTHY STEFAN

Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.
STEFAN EMUNDS

Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. Th...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. ...
STEFAN EMUNDS

I seem to know a lot about myself, but can’t tell who I am.
STEFAN EMUNDS

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malig...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

A man could shoot thirty ducks if it pleased him, and then shoot thirty more the next day, and it wa...
STEFAN BECHTEL

Lee, who oddly enough has no problem owning everything Apple ever puts out even though their serfs l...
STEFAN MOHAMED

The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination arou...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blin...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State bec...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citi...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX

God Child is a free and inspirational translation of Adam. Adam means 'human', not 'man'. The Hebrew...
STEFAN EMUNDS

Since time immemorial, the serpent has symbolized organic vitality. Serpents move in curves and so d...
STEFAN EMUNDS

And our Divine Parents have been molding God Child’s soul from stardust. And They have been breath...
STEFAN EMUNDS

In the beginnings, God Mother separates the earth from the heavens.
STEFAN EMUNDS

Try to imagine this formless, liquid abyss of many waters and surfaces. With and within this awesome...
STEFAN EMUNDS

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

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