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 IBSENIf you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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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.
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