The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
HENRIK IBSENIt is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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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.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Oh, 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.
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I’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.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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