What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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.
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.
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
A friend married is a friend lost.
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.