Stefan Zweig Quotes

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.

I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.

People need to feel like their heroes are human, not on the mat but in the world. The more people can see that, the more they can understand that they're capable of doing great things as well.

Once, Pee-wee Herman tweeted a photo of this guitar I made that's shaped like a slice of pizza, and it meant a lot to me. People downplay it, but there's power there, people reaching toward each other and toward truth. Any mechanism, any resource that we can use to further that reach, is part of the human destiny.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

I like to think that images of people doing amazing things may open people's eyes to the human potential, to the idea that people can do the extraordinary when they set their minds to it.

I think superheroes are about flying. They're not about moping.

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?

I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from poets and philosophers, from educators and ecologists, from postal clerks and miners and traffic cops and nurses and waiters and musicians and cooks and cleaners and from...Regular People Everywhere. That is to say, from YOU.

It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.

It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.