What is public opinion? It is private indolence. Georg Brandes More Quotes by Georg Brandes More Quotes From Georg Brandes On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. Georg Brandes whole friendly world 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 discipline home school The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. Georg Brandes danish glee cheerfulness The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools Georg Brandes three tools personality I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values. Georg Brandes figures home world Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can. Georg Brandes goal trying giving Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success. Georg Brandes results greatness 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 running father people The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him. Georg Brandes pace twenties leadership [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 Georg Brandes vivid ease lying Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way. Georg Brandes errors names men The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men. Georg Brandes burden men culture We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist. Georg Brandes apology men thinking The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child. Georg Brandes age men children The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age. Georg Brandes educator age helping It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... Third Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth. Georg Brandes pain age men Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished. Georg Brandes passion men lying History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men's great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me. Georg Brandes fighting running teacher The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he does not take these opinions for models. That man is thought best fitted to depict a period of the past, who is not in the least affected by that period. But only he who has a share in building up the future can grasp what the past has been, and only when transformed into a work of art can history arouse or even sustain instincts. Georg Brandes men past art It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. Georg Brandes difficult please mother
