The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.... — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot… — 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
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. — 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