Quotes by Georg Brandes

Georg Brandes

[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another’s nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence

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Lying

Vivid

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.

Compassion

Humanity

Lying

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

Delight

Picnics

Summer

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

Enriching

Feelings

Mind

Being gifted needs courage.

Gifted

Needs

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

Birth

Children

House

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

Inspiration

Study

Years

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.

Doubt

Madness

Overcoming

But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. … We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.

Creating

Powerful

Voice

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.

Glimpse

Strong

Years

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Quotes by Georg Brandes

Georg Brandes

[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another’s nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence

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.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

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

Being gifted needs courage.

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

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

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.

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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