Georg Brandes Short Quotes

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Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

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

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I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

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I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

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The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

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When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

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

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The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

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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.

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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

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It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

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It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.

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Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.

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Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

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

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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.

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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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Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.

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