Zweig (German for "twig" or "branch") is the surname of:
- Alan Zweig, Canadian documentary filmmaker
- Arnold Zweig, German writer and pacifist
- George Zweig, American particle physicist and neurobiologist
- Martin Zweig, American stock investor and financial analyst
- Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer
- Stefan Jerzy Zweig, Austrian (formerly Polish) author and camera operator, Holocaust survivor.
- Stefanie Zweig, German writer
- Rabbi Yochanan Zweig, American Rosh Yeshiva
Famous quotes containing the word zweig:
“Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chronicled ... never before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)