But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
HENRIK IBSENIf you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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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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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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