Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSENIt’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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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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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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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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