Georg Brandes Quotes

Danish - Critic | February 4, 1842 - February 19, 1927

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

Georg Brandes

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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

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I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Georg Brandes

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

Georg Brandes

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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

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

Georg Brandes

MindMeFeelingRareUnfortunately

Being gifted needs courage.

Georg Brandes

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

Georg Brandes

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

Georg Brandes

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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

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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

LifeBeautyStrongFirstExistence

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

Georg Brandes

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