Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.
And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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 d...
The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.
The strongest men are the most alone.
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!
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!
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 soci...
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Yes you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness.
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!