Georg Brandes Quotes

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• I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
• The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
• It is useless to send armies against ideas.
• Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
• I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
• The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....
• My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually…
• When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
• School is a foretaste of life.
• Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I…
• The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
• A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love…
• Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
• Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
• Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
• But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
• He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
• I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
• I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
• But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was…

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