Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the idea of personal growth through new experiences.
Stefan Zweig reflects on how his experiences in England have broadened his understanding of the world, suggesting that travel and exposure to new cultures can lead to significant personal development and a wider perspective on life. It emphasizes the importance of embracing change and the transformative power of exploration.
In practice
In a travel blog discussing the transformative effects of visiting different countries.
All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence
All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
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