Quote of Stefan Zweig - In history as in human life...
Biography - Stefan Zweig:
Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer.
Born: 1881 - Died: 1942
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Austria
Born: 1881 - Died: 1942
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Austria
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes about life:
Quotes about history:
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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