Stefan Zweig Quotes

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

A man's got to know his limitations.

By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to seek knowledge within himself as the final reference point. Then he will have to seek an exhaustive understanding of reality. He will have to hold that if he cannot attain to such an exhaustive understanding of reality he has no true knowledge of anything at all. Either man must then know everything or he knows nothing. This is the dilemma that confronts every form of non-Christian epistemology

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

Education is inoculation against disruption.

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

Self-knowledge makes me happy.

Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?