Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSENNow I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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 IBSENI am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
HENRIK IBSENThe most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
HENRIK IBSENSo to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
HENRIK IBSENIf you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
HENRIK IBSENA woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
HENRIK IBSENTo die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
HENRIK IBSENBut a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
HENRIK IBSENWhether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
HENRIK IBSENEverything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
HENRIK IBSENThe majority never has right on its side.
HENRIK IBSENThere is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
HENRIK IBSENTo live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
HENRIK IBSENDifferent 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.
HENRIK IBSEN