Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
HENRIK IBSENOh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
HENRIK IBSENA friend married is a friend lost.
HENRIK IBSENWhat’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
HENRIK IBSENWhether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
HENRIK IBSENIn the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
HENRIK IBSENI’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
HENRIK IBSENMost 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.
HENRIK IBSENI 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 IBSENA party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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 IBSENBut a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
HENRIK IBSENThe worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
HENRIK IBSENReally to sin you have to be serious about it.
HENRIK IBSENI propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
HENRIK IBSENTo die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
HENRIK IBSENOh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
HENRIK IBSEN