Georg Brandes Quotes

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

  Georg Brandes

  Hot, Bullets, Poor

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

  Georg Brandes

  Hours, Whole, Knows

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• That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

  Georg Brandes

  Hygiene, Literature, Way

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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.

  Georg Brandes

  Kindness, Brutality, Goodness

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• What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction

  Georg Brandes

  Humility, Self, Names

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.17, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

  Georg Brandes

  Leadership, Twenties, Pace

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• I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

  Georg Brandes

  Children, Animal, Air

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• The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

  Georg Brandes

  Truth, Errors, Humanity

  "Ferdinand Lassalle". Book by Georg Brandes, 1881.

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• The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

  Georg Brandes

  War, Liberty

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• Being gifted needs courage.

  Georg Brandes

  Needs, Gifted

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• 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 of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

  Georg Brandes

  Lying, Compassion, Humanity

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• Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.

  Georg Brandes

  Giving, Goal, Trying

  Georg Brandes (1914). “Friedrich Nietzsche. (Translated by A. G. Chater.) [Translations of "Friedrich Nietzsche. En Afhandling om aristokratisk Radikalisme," extracted from "Fremmede Personligheder,” “Friedrich Nietzsche's sidste aandeligt virksomme Aar," published in "Tilskueren," 1899, and two short articles extracted from "Skikkelser og Tanker." ]”, CreateSpace

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• Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

  Georg Brandes

  School, Home, Discipline

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

  Georg Brandes

  Inspiration, Years, Study

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• The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

  Georg Brandes

  War, Soldier, Tin

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• The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

  Georg Brandes

  Age, Helping, Educator

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

  Georg Brandes

  Greatness, Results

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.10, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

  Georg Brandes

  Apology, Men, Thinking

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

  Georg Brandes

  Children, Men, Age

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he does not take these opinions for models. That man is thought best fitted to depict a period of the past, who is not in the least affected by that period. But only he who has a share in building up the future can grasp what the past has been, and only when transformed into a work of art can history arouse or even sustain instincts.

  Georg Brandes

  Art, Past, Men

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• It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... Third Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.

  Georg Brandes

  Pain, Men, Age

  "An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism" by Georg Brandes, 1889.

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• 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 destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

  Georg Brandes

  Strong, Years, Glimpse

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• What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God's sanctity

  Georg Brandes

  Real, Animal, Men

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.22, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

  Georg Brandes

  Doubt, Overcoming, Madness

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• Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way.

  Georg Brandes

  Men, Errors, Names

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.5, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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