Live by faith, not by sight.
Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.
Only tyrannies understand the power of art.
I went straight in. Fade in, one. . . whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new translation, Anthea Bell perfectly captures Stefan Zweig’s glorious evocation of a lost world, Vienna’s golden age, in which he grew up and flourished.
And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.
It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected. . . Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.
I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me