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Georg Brandes Quotes

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I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself  (Georg Brandes Quotes) He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish  (Georg Brandes Quotes) Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods  (Georg Brandes Quotes) The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness  (Georg Brandes Quotes) The person upon whom the schoolboys’ attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster  (Georg Brandes Quotes) But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both  (Georg Brandes Quotes) I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals  (Georg Brandes Quotes) But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, beauty  (Georg Brandes Quotes) It is useless to send armies against ideas  (Georg Brandes Quotes) The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools  (Georg Brandes Quotes) [Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another’s nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence  (Georg Brandes Quotes) What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one’s self became reluctance to assert one’s self, became forgiveness, love of one’s enemies. Misery became a distinction  (Georg Brandes Quotes) I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.  (Georg Brandes Quotes) I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one’s feeling of honour.  (Georg Brandes Quotes) But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.  (Georg Brandes Quotes) School is a foretaste of life  (Georg Brandes Quotes) Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave  (Georg Brandes Quotes) What is public opinion? It is private indolence  (Georg Brandes Quotes) The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age  (Georg Brandes Quotes) Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success  (Georg Brandes Quotes) The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth  (Georg Brandes Quotes) I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light  (Georg Brandes Quotes) I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small  (Georg Brandes Quotes) I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry  (Georg Brandes Quotes) I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer  (Georg Brandes Quotes) Being gifted needs courage  (Georg Brandes Quotes) Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person  (Georg Brandes Quotes) We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist  (Georg Brandes Quotes) The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them  (Georg Brandes Quotes) When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance  (Georg Brandes Quotes)
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