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• 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

  Giving, Goal, Trying

  Georg Brandes (1914). “Friedrich Nietzsche. (Translated by A. G. Chater.) [Translations of "Friedrich Nietzsche. En Afhandling om aristokratisk Radikalisme," extracted from "Fremmede Personligheder,” “Friedrich Nietzsche's sidste aandeligt virksomme Aar," published in "Tilskueren," 1899, and two short articles extracted from "Skikkelser og Tanker." ]”, CreateSpace

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• 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

  Running, Teacher, Fighting

  "An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism" by Georg Brandes, 1889.

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• 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

  Lying, Passion, Men

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• [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

  Lying, Ease, Vivid

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.57, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• 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

  Men, Errors, Names

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.5, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

  Georg Brandes

  Public Opinion, Opinion, Indolence

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.5, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.

  Georg Brandes

  Powerful, Voice, Creating

  "An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism" by Georg Brandes, 1889.

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• The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

  Georg Brandes

  Glee, Danish, Cheerfulness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

  Georg Brandes

  Men, Culture, Burden

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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

  Georg Brandes

  Country, Pigs, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Personality, Three, Tools

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.11, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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