68 Quotes by Georg Brandes

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

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.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

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.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

About the same time as my legal studies were thus beginning, I planned out a study of Philosophy and Aesthetics on a large scale as well.