I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings – they make the soul small.
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
A forest bird never wants a cage.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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 rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population – the intelligent ones or the fools?
The devil is compromise.
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.