So 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 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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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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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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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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