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Quotes from Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D — Stefan Zweig

1881–1942 Austria

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He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. We must approach knowledge from the inside; inspired by passion.

Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)

Youth is always right. Those who follow the counsels of youth are wise.

Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)

There is no understanding of the past without personal experience, without reliving it in imagination. A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)

To the young, what can be more disturbing, what more unsettling and tantalizing, than the play of vague suspicions? The fancy, ceasing to wander in the void, concentrates upon a definite aim, and luxuriates in the febrile pleasures of the chase.

Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)

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