Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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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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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? 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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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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Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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