The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
HENRIK IBSENWhat ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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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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The majority never has right on its side.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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