My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying… — 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
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 does not take these opinions for models. That man is thought best fitted to depict a period of the past, who is not in the least affected by that period. But only he who has a… — Georg Brandes Copy Share
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
