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.
HENRIK IBSENOh, 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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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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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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