Georg Brandes - Quotations

Quotations

  • Being gifted requires courage (1869)
  • That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. (1871)
  • Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types. (1900)
  • He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish (1906)
  • The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. (1909)
  • The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity
  • It would be as impossible for me to attack Christianity as it would be impossible for me to attack werewolves.
  • I was very much surprised when Mill informed me that he had not read a line of Hegel, either in the original or in translation, and regarded the entire Hegelian philosophy as sterile and empty sophistry. I mentally confronted this with the opinion of the man at the Copenhagen University who knew the history of philosophy best, my teacher, Hans Brochner, who knew, so to speak, nothing of contemporary English and French philosophy, and did not think them worth studying. I came to the conclusion that here was a task for one who understood the thinkers of the two directions, who did not mutually understand one another. I thought that in philosophy, too, I knew what I wanted, and saw a road open in front of me.
    • Reminiscences of my childhood and youth (1906) 276-277

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