Attributes Quote by Georg Brandes

“[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence”

Georg Brandes

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“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.”

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