Georg Brandes Quotes

• School is a foretaste of life.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Life

  Tags in School

• Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Poor

• My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Self, Competition

• 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.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Discipline

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friendly, World

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Happy

• 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.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Experience, Friendship

  Tags in Academic

• I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one’s feeling of honour.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feeling, Honour

• 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.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Great, Warrior, Imagination

• I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Happy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Traits, Goodness

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Christianity, Consciousness, Sin

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Mother

• 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

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Fundamental, Forces, Existence

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Strength

• I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Ardent

• 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

  Topics in Humanity, Love

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Understanding

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in Inspiration

Georg Brandes (34)

Birth:	4th February, 1842
Death:	19th February, 1927
Nationality:	Danish
Profession:	Critic

About

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture. At the age of 30, Brandes formulated the principles of a new realism and naturalism, condemning hyper-aesthetic writing and fantasy in literature.

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