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.
- Georg Brandes Quote

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

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
- Georg Brandes Quote

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.
- Georg Brandes Quote

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
- Georg Brandes Quote

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
- Georg Brandes Quote

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

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
- Georg Brandes Quote

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

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

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

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.
- Georg Brandes Quote

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.
- Georg Brandes Quote

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
- Georg Brandes Quote

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
- Georg Brandes Quote

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 Quote

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.
- Georg Brandes Quote

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
- Georg Brandes Quote

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
- Georg Brandes Quote

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
- Georg Brandes Quote