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Inspirational Quotes by Georg Brandes
- 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.
- School is a foretaste of life.
- The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
- Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
- 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.
- I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
- Being gifted needs courage.
- I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
- I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
- It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento