Georg Brandes

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

— Georg Brandes

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts…

— Georg Brandes

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

— Georg Brandes

Being gifted needs courage.

— Georg Brandes

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

— Georg Brandes

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

— Georg Brandes

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

— Georg Brandes

Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist,…

— Georg Brandes

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

— Georg Brandes

Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters…

— Georg Brandes

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was…

— Georg Brandes

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

— Georg Brandes

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

— Georg Brandes

Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their…

— Georg Brandes