I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSENI’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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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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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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