Henrik Ibsen Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Atheism, Doctrine, Looks

  Henrik Ibsen (1904). “Ghosts: An Enemy of the People : The Wild Duck”

• Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Men, Average

  'Vildanden' (The Wild Duck, 1884) act 5

• I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Elderly, Gentleman

  Henrik Ibsen (1960). “The Oxford Ibsen: An enemy of the people. The wild duck. Rosmersholm”

• Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Atheism, Use

  "The Wild Duck".

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