But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
HENRIK IBSENBut a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
HENRIK IBSENThe great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
HENRIK IBSENOh, 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.
HENRIK IBSENSo 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 IBSENWhether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
HENRIK IBSENThe greatest victory is defeat.
HENRIK IBSENIt is no use lying to one’s self.
HENRIK IBSENWriting has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
HENRIK IBSENWhat’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
HENRIK IBSENI am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSENThe most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
HENRIK IBSENThe man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
HENRIK IBSENBigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
HENRIK IBSENTo live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
HENRIK IBSENI am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
HENRIK IBSENA forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSEN