Stefan Zweig Chess Quotes

#1. The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

Albert Einstein

#2. Nothing was done to us - we were simply placed in a complete void, and everyone knows that nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the human soul as a void.

Stefan Zweig

#3. Sometimes a body isn't built for a spirit that is bigger than the world itself. Sometimes it fails and sometimes that failing destroys the world. It wrecked mine.

Eden Butler

#4. We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to an animal, you are training yourself to be cruel to people, too (and vice versa).

Jonathan Balcombe

#5. I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

Mae West

#6. In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.

Muhammad Al-Baqir

#7. I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

Katharine Whitehorn

#8. In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Stefan Zweig