A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word...
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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 spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.
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 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.
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!
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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...
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.