Georg Brandes Quotes

History, in Nietzsche’s view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men’s great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.

Georg Brandes

Quotes to Explore

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant
- Genius
- Insanity
- Line
If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

Walter Smith
- Team
- Winning
- Management
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Iris Murdoch
- Art
- Soul
- Human
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

Randall Jarrell
- Know
- Intelligent
- Say
When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

Becky G
- God
- Money
- Kids
We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.

Garth Risk Hallberg
- Trying
- Doing
- Understand