Henrik Ibsen Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Heart, Men, Black

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.1891, Delphi Classics

• The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Majority, Minorities, Literature

• The devil is compromise.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Devil, Literature, Compromise

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

• Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Literature, Serious, Sin

  "Peer Gynt". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Button-Moulder, Act V, Scene VII, 1867.

• The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Literature, Spectacles

  "The League of Youth and Pillars of Society".

• The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Struggle, Men, Literature

  Henrik Ibsen (1896). “Brand: a dramatic poem”

• 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.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Struggle, Men, Expanding Universe

  Letter to Georg Brandes, February 17, 1871.

• 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!

  Henrik Ibsen

  Science, Generations, Machines

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

• Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Tools, Literature, Pillars

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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