Georg Brandes - Age Quotes

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

Georg Brandes

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

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

Georg Brandes

For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminal's sin ; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of destiny; and the criminal on his side took his punishment as a piece of destiny which had overtaken him, and bore it with the same fatalism … In general we may say that punishment tames the man, but does not make him better.

Georg Brandes