68 Quotes by Georg Brandes

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

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.

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.

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.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

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

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

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

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.