Georg Brandes Quotes
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School is a foretaste of life.
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The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools
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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.
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Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.
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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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When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
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My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
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Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.
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He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
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I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
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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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Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
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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.
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Being gifted needs courage.
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Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
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I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
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Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.
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The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.
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But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
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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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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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It would be as impossible for me to attack Christianity as it would be impossible for me to attack werewolves.
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I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
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The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.