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It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
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It is no use lying to one's self.
Henrik Ibsen
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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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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 -
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
Henrik Ibsen -
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
Henrik Ibsen -
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
Henrik Ibsen -
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
Henrik Ibsen
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik Ibsen -
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
Henrik Ibsen
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
Henrik Ibsen -
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
Henrik Ibsen -
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.
Henrik Ibsen -
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
Henrik Ibsen -
Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
Henrik Ibsen -
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 Ibsen
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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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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To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind.
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
Henrik Ibsen