The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist,… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
