Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
HENRIK IBSENWhenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
HENRIK IBSENI believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
HENRIK IBSENDo you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
HENRIK IBSENThe majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
HENRIK IBSENBigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
HENRIK IBSENTo live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
HENRIK IBSENA party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
HENRIK IBSENCastles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSENI hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSENWhen you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSENThe most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
HENRIK IBSENThere is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
HENRIK IBSENWhat sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
HENRIK IBSENThe spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
HENRIK IBSEN