Small: The most wonderful result of all education is to make you do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be don
H. C. Andersen
"The most wonderful result of all education is to make you do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not"
H. C. Andersen, Writer
Small: Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards
Søren Kierkegaard
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
Small: The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness
"The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals
"I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish
"He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house
"Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everythin
Søren Kierkegaard
"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
Small: When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance
"When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my ci
"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, Critic
Small: I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied ones feeling of honour
"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light
"I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that
"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"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother
"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour
"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer
"I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence
"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, Critic
Small: But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year
"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me
"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: School is a foretaste of life
"School is a foretaste of life"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small
"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry
"I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems
"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to t
"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not
"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more stren
"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, Critic
Small: I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values
"I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprigh
"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself
"I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: Being gifted needs courage
"Being gifted needs courage"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying
"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"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: One can advise comfortably from a safe port
Søren Kierkegaard
"One can advise comfortably from a safe port"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
Small: Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in hi
Søren Kierkegaard
"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
Small: People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use
Søren Kierkegaard
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
Small: To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself
Søren Kierkegaard
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
Small: There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: lifes highest,
Søren Kierkegaard
"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
Small: People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotes
Søren Kierkegaard
"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
Small: It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and i
Søren Kierkegaard
"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
Small: The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it
Søren Kierkegaard
"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
Small: The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one
Søren Kierkegaard
"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
Small: Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor
Søren Kierkegaard
"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher