I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSENPeople who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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The devil is compromise.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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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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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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