Two suitcases, in one the wardrobe, the earthly essentials, in the other- manuscripts, the spiritual supplies, then you are at home everywhere-Zweig GW Tagebuecher p. 383
There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes into safe harbour he longs to be back in the turmoil.
The herd instinct of the mob was not yet as offensively powerful in public life as it is today; freedom in what you did or did not do in private life was taken for granted - which is hardly imaginable...
Now they both smiled. The sweet, light fragrance of a first youthful, half-unspoken love, with all its intoxicating tenderness, had awoken in them like a dream on which you reflect ironically when you...
No te culpo, te quiero tal como eres, ardiente y distraído, olvidadizo, entregado e infiel, te quiero así, sólo así, como siempre has sido y como aún eres.
Nationalism is the sworn enemy of civilization, whether past, present or future, its malodorous presence thwarting the development of intelligence,
Nada se nos hizo, sólo que se nos situó dentro de la nada absoluta, porque, según es notorio, ninguna cosa del mundo ejerce tanta presión sobre el alma humana como la nada.
Montaigne is the sworn enemy of all responsibility. He strives to dodge decisions. Solitary sage in a time of mass fanaticism, he seeks seclusion and flight.
Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate besto...
La paura è peggio del castigo; perché alla fine il castigo è qualcosa di determinato e, sia pesante o meno, è sempre meglio della spaventosaincertezza, della tremenda tensione che si prolunga all'infi...
How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time!
He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.
He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future would not speak to him again, revealing the present to him as well a...
He is only a philosopher in the manner of Socrates, whom he revered above all others because he left behind no dogma, no teachings, no law, no system, only an example: the man who seeks himself in all...
For a society is always most cruel to those who disclose and reveal its secrets, when through dishonesty society itself has outraged Nature.
Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the air of the epoch in which we live.
Böyle olağanüstü, dahice bir oyunun ister istemez göreceli ustalar yaratacağı gerçeğini uzun zaman önce anlamıştım; ama dünyayı yalnızca siyah ile beyaz arasındaki dar yola indirgeyen, otuz iki taşı b...
Bu yaşlardaki genç kızlar için okudukları şiirlerin iyi mi kötü mü, sahici mi yoksa uyduruk mu olduğunun hiç önemi yoktur. Dizeler onlar için susuzluklarını dindiren kadehlerdir, içindeki şaraba dikka...
Ama ne yazık ki tarihte hep aynı trajedi tekrarlanmaktadır, çünkü fikir adamları zamanı gelince, dava adamı olma sorumluluğunu üstlenmekte zorlanırlar ve pek nadir durumlarda harekete geçerler. Düşün...
All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.