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Georg Brandes

Geburtstag: 4. Februar 1842
Todesdatum: 19. Februar 1927
Andere Namen: George Brandes

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes war ein dänischer Literaturkritiker, Philosoph und Schriftsteller. Er gewann als Vermittler skandinavischer Literatur im Ausland und europäischer Tendenzen in Skandinavien große Bedeutung. Brandes trug maßgeblich dazu bei, die skandinavische Literatur zum „Aufbruch in die Moderne“ zu bewegen, indem er Autoren des Realismus und Naturalismus förderte. Mit seinem Bruder, dem Politiker und Schriftsteller Edvard Brandes, der ihn sein ganzes Leben unterstützte, gründete er die Zeitung Politiken. Wikipedia

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„For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminal’s “sin”; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of destiny; and the criminal on his side took his punishment as a piece of destiny which had overtaken him, and bore it with the same fatalism … In general we may say that punishment tames the man, but does not make him “better.”“

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—  Georg Brandes

Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), pp. 38-39

„What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one’s self became reluctance to assert one’s self, became forgiveness, love of one’s enemies. Misery became a distinction“

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—  Georg Brandes

Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), pp. 31-32

„[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“

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—  Georg Brandes

Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), pp. 112-113

„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“

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—  Georg Brandes

Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 20

„The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.“

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—  Georg Brandes

Ferdinand Lassalle (1881)

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

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—  Georg Brandes

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

„Nietzsche asks how it has come about that so prodigious a contradiction can exist as that between the lack of true culture and the self-satisfied belief in actually possessing the only true one and he finds the answer in the circumstance that a class of men has come to the front which no former century has known, and to which (in 1873) he gave the name of “Culture-Philistines.”“

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—  Georg Brandes

Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 8

„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.“

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—  Georg Brandes

Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 26

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

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—  Georg Brandes

Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 32

„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.“

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—  Georg Brandes

Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 10

„The Culture-Philistine … everywhere meets with educated people of his own sort, and since schools, universities and academies are adapted to his requirements and fashioned on the model corresponding to his cultivation. Since he finds almost everywhere the same tacit conventions with respect to religion, morality and literature, with respect to marriage, the family, the community and the state, he considers it demonstrated that this imposing homogeneity is culture. It never enters his head that this systematic and well-organised philistinism, which is set up in all high places and installed at every editorial desk, is not by any means made culture just because its organs are in concert. It is not even bad culture, says Nietzsche; it is barbarism fortified to the best of its ability, but entirely lacking the freshness and savage force of original barbarism; and he has many graphic expressions to describe Culture-Philistinism as the morass in which all weariness is stuck fast, and in the poisonous mists of which all endeavour languishes.“

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—  Georg Brandes

Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 8

„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.“

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

„He who feels that in his inmost being he cannot be compared with others, will be his own lawgiver. For one thing is needful: to give style to one’s character. This art is practised by him who, with an eye for the strong and weak sides of his nature, removes from it one quality and another, and then by daily practice and acquired habit replaces them by others which become second nature to him; in other words, he puts himself under restraint in order by degrees to bend his nature entirely to his own law. Only thus does a man arrive at satisfaction with himself, and only thus does he become endurable to others. For the dissatisfied and the unsuccessful as a rule avenge themselves on others. They absorb poison from everything, from their own incompetence as well as from their poor circumstances, and they live in a constant craving for revenge on those in whose nature they suspect harmony. Such people ever have virtuous precepts on their lips; the whole jingle of morality, seriousness, chastity, the claims of life; and their hearts ever burn with envy of those who have become well [harmonious] and can therefore enjoy life.“

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Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 26

„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.“

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—  Georg Brandes

Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), pp. 113

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

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

„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.“

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—  Georg Brandes

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

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

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—  Georg Brandes

Quelle: 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.“

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—  Georg Brandes

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

„Nietzsche proposes the following brilliant hypothesis: The bad conscience is the deep-seated morbid condition that declared itself in man under the stress of the most radical change he has ever experienced when he found himself imprisoned in perpetuity within a society which was in- violable. All the strong and savage instincts such as adventurousness, rashness, cunning, rapacity, lust of power, which till then had not only been honoured, but actually encouraged, were suddenly put down as dangerous, and by degrees branded as immoral and criminal. Creatures adapted to a roving life of war and adventure suddenly saw all their instincts classed as worthless, nay, as forbidden. An immense despondency, a dejection without parallel, then took possession of them. And all these instincts that were not allowed an outward vent, turned inwards on the man himself feelings of enmity, cruelty, … violence, persecution, destruction and thus the bad conscience originated.“

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Quelle: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 39

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

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—  Georg Brandes

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

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