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.
If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?
The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light. My heart has the taste of ashes, and my throat is tight and weary with weeping. What is a lost soul? It is one that has turned from its true path and is groping in the darkness of remembered waysβ
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