Georg Brandes Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Georg Brandes quotes and sayings page 2 (critic). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 34 we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.”
“The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.”
“The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.”
“When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.”
“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.”
“Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.”
“He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.”
“Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.”
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