The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
When you teach children that the life here below is nothing to the life above, that to be visible is nothing in comparison with being invisible, that to be a human being is nothing in comparison with being dead, that… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
When you teach children that the life here below is nothing to the life above, that to be visible is nothing in comparison with… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
“Svava: "Rule number one: Never make a fool of yourself." Riis: "Rule number two: Never be a burden to any one." Svava: "Rule number… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
God's supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking their Christianity. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
