Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
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… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“To be oneself on a basis of gold is no better than founding one’s house on the sand. For your watch, and your ring,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
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… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that.… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“Nora: It's true Torvald. When I lived at home with Papa, he used to tell me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinion. If I thought differently, I had to hide it from him, or he wouldn't have liked it. He called me his little doll, and he used to play with me just as I… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is 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 cannot shake them off. Whenever… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
