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.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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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.
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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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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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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.
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