Henrik Ibsen on chaos
Henrik Ibsen129 quotes“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 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 IbsenHenrik Ibsen Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen 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.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen 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 IbsenHenrik Ibsen There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen
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