Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.
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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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The majority never has right on its side.
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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
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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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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.