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• 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

  Space, Envy, Hatred

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.22, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God's sanctity

  Georg Brandes

  Real, Animal, Men

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.22, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.

  Georg Brandes

  Race, Effort, Trying

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.14, 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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• Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks.

  Georg Brandes

  Believe, Optimism, Greek

  "An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche". Essay by Georg Brandes (1889), as translated in "Friedrich Nietzsche" by A.G. Chater (p. 21), 1914.

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

  Georg Brandes

  Two, World, Months

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

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• 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

  Smile, Circles, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• School is a foretaste of life.

  Georg Brandes

  School, School Life

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

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• Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.

  Georg Brandes

  Punishment, Medicine, Guilt

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.14, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

  Georg Brandes

  Morality, Slave, Pariahs

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• Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.

  Georg Brandes

  Christian, Brother, Hatred

  "An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche". Essay by Georg Brandes (1889), as translated in "Friedrich Nietzsche" by A.G. Chater (p. 32), 1914.

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

  Georg Brandes

  Boys, Littles, Trouble

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only detects its presence after having long entertained it unawares.

  Georg Brandes

  Spring, Long, Loathing

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.58, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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

  Georg Brandes

  Home, World, Figures

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

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• On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

  Georg Brandes

  Friendly, World, Whole

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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

  Brother, Real, Taken

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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.

  Georg Brandes

  Strong, Years, Glimpse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

  Georg Brandes

  Dancer, Ardent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Georg Brandes

  Feelings, Mind, Enriching

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

  Georg Brandes

  Attention, Headmasters, Persons

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

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• Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

  Georg Brandes

  Children, House, Birth

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

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• Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

  Georg Brandes

  Summer, Delight, Picnics

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

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