Fighting Quotes by Georg Brandes

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to…

— Georg Brandes

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I…

— Georg Brandes

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

— Georg Brandes

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow…

— Georg Brandes

School is a foretaste of life.

— Georg Brandes

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

— Georg Brandes

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

— Georg Brandes

The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he…

— Georg Brandes

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

— Georg Brandes

It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises…

— Georg Brandes

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

— Georg Brandes

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

— Georg Brandes