Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSENTake the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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It’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.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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