"I was not afraid of what I did……" — Georg Brandes
"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour."
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38 Quotes by Georg Brandes
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to…
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
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It is useless to send armies against ideas.
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Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
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I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....
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My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my…
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When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
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School is a foretaste of life.
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Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life…
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The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been…
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