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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
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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Friendship Lying Oneself
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
What 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.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

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