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29 Quotations by Henrik Johan Ibsen
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Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."A forest bird never wants a cage." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."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 judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."Do not use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."For a student has essentially the same task as the poet: to make clear to himself, and thereby to others, the temporal and eternal questions which are astir in the age and in the community to which he belongs." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."If I were to tell at this moment what has been the chief result of my stay abroad, I should say that it consisted in my having driven out of myself the aestheticism which had a great power over me - an isolated aestheticism with a claim to independent existence. Aestheticism of this kind seem to me now as a great curse to poetry as theology is to religion." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."It is only what we have inherited from our fathers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not actually alive in us; but they are dormant, all the same, and we can never b e rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper and read it, I fancy I see ghosts creeping between the lines. There must be ghosts all over the world." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."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." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."Oh, why does everything I touch become mean and ludicrous? It's like a curse!" Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."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." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."Take the life - lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness. " Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."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? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."The most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom amoungst us is the compact majority." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - they are the pillars of society." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."The thing is, you see, that the strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone. " Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."There are some people one loves best, and others whom one would almost always rather have as companions." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."To be yourself is to slay yourself." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?" Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes Henrik Johan Ibsen said..."You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth." Search for a new quotation | Browse/Search Authors | Browse Themes |
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