Henrik Ibsen Quotes About Literature

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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.

    Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”
  • 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.

    Heart   Men   Black  
    Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.1891, Delphi Classics
  • Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

    "Peer Gynt". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Button-Moulder, Act V, Scene VII, 1867.
  • 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!

    Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”
  • One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

    Men  
    Letter to Georg Brandes, February 17, 1871.
  • The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

    Men  
    Henrik Ibsen (1896). “Brand: a dramatic poem”
  • The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

    "The League of Youth and Pillars of Society".
  • The devil is compromise.

    Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics
  • The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

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