Frases de Georg Brandes

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes foi um crítico dinamarquês e um acadêmico de grande influência da literatura escandinava. Wikipedia  

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Georg Brandes frases e citações

“É preciso coragem para ter talento.”

Der skal mod til at have talent
Georg Brandes citado em "Vendsyssel mosaik: Digte, essays, noveller og fortællinger"‎ - Página 139, H. P. Jensen - Otto N. Olesens Boghandel, 1967 - 153 páginas

“É inútil enviar exército contra idéias.”

citado in "Selezione dal Reader's Digest", fevereiro de 1976)

Georg Brandes: Frases em inglês

“The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.”

[paraphrasing Nietzsche] p. 11
An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889)

“On entering life, then, young people meet with various collective opinions, more or less narrow-minded. The more the individual has it in him to become a real personality, the more he will resist following a herd. But even if an inner voice says to him; “Become thyself! Be thyself!” he hears its appeal with despondency. Has he a self? He does not know; he is not yet aware of it. He therefore looks about for a teacher, an educator, one who will teach him, not something foreign, but how to become his own individual self.
We had in Denmark a great man who with impressive force exhorted his contemporaries to become individuals. But Søren Kierkegaard’s appeal was not intended to be taken so unconditionally as it sounded. For the goal was fixed. They were to become individuals, not in order to develop into free personalities, but in order by this means to become true Christians. Their freedom was only apparent; above them was suspended a “Thou shalt believe!” and a “Thou shalt obey!” Even as individuals they had a halter round their necks, and on the farther side of the narrow passage of individualism, through which the herd was driven, the herd awaited them again one flock, one shepherd.
It is not with this idea of immediately resigning his personality again that the young man in our day desires to become himself and seeks an educator. He will not have a dogma set up before him, at which he is expected to arrive.”

Fonte: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), pp. 9-10

“The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.”

Fonte: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 11

“What is public opinion? It is private indolence.”

Fonte: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 9

“It would be as impossible for me to attack Christianity as it would be impossible for me to attack werewolves.”

From Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (1921): Brandes to Nietzsche, 23 November 1888.

“Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.”

Fonte: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 19

“Young girls sometimes make use of the expression: “Reading books to read one’s self.” They prefer a book that presents some resemblance to their own circumstances and experiences. It is true that we can never understand except through ourselves. Yet, when we want to understand a book, it should not be our aim to discover ourselves in that book, but to grasp clearly the meaning which its author has sought to convey through the characters presented in it. We reach through the book to the soul that created it. And when we have learned as much as this of the author, we often wish to read more of his works. We suspect that there is some connection running through the different things he has written and by reading his works consecutively we arrive at a better understanding of him and them. Take, for instance, Henrik Ibsen’s tragedy, “Ghosts.” This earnest and profound play was at first almost unanimously denounced as an immoral publication. Ibsen’s next work, “An Enemy of the People,” describes, as is well known the ill-treatment received by a doctor in a little seaside town when he points out the fact that the baths for which the town is noted are contaminated. The town does not want such a report spread; it is not willing to incur the necessary expensive reparation, but elects instead to abuse the doctor, treating him as if he and not the water were the contaminating element. The play was an answer to the reception given to “Ghosts,” and when we perceive this fact we read it in a new light. We ought, then, preferably to read so as to comprehend the connection between and author’s books. We ought to read, too, so as to grasp the connection between an author’s own books and those of other writers who have influenced him, or on whom he himself exerts an influence. Pause a moment over “An Enemy of the People,” and recollect the stress laid in that play upon the majority who as the majority are almost always in the wrong, against the emancipated individual, in the right; recollect the concluding reply about that strength that comes from standing alone. If the reader, struck by the force and singularity of these thoughts, were to trace whether they had previously been enunciated in Scandinavian books, he would find them expressed with quite fundamental energy throughout the writings of Soren Kierkegaard, and he would discern a connection between Norwegian and Danish literature, and observe how an influence from one country was asserting itself in the other. Thus, by careful reading, we reach through a book to the man behind it, to the great intellectual cohesion in which he stands, and to the influence which he in his turn exerts.”

Fonte: On Reading: An Essay (1906), pp. 40-43