Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny. Stefan Zweig More Quotes by Stefan Zweig More Quotes From Stefan Zweig It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times. Stefan Zweig recognition movement law Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions. Stefan Zweig done mean history Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon. Stefan Zweig horizon england world Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. Stefan Zweig fate demise deeds (Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors. Stefan Zweig notebook learning education (Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home. Stefan Zweig freedom christian jobs
