Georg Brandes quotes
Georg Brandes was a Danish literary critic and scholar, recognized for his influence on European literature. His advocacy for realism and the Modern Breakthrough movement inspired major writers across Scandinavia and beyond. He played a crucial role in shaping modern thought and intellectual debate in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are 74 of his quotes:
Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.
Georg Brandes
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
Georg Brandes
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Occupation: Danish Critic
Born: February 4, 1842
Died: February 19, 1927
Quotes count: 74
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