Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
The majority never has right on its side.
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
Mrs LINDE: When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself – thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
Oh yes, right – right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?