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.
From Georg Brandes
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
Being gifted needs courage.
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
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.
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