Georg Brandes

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

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.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping force.