Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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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 majority never has right on its side.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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In 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.
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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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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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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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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!