Top Ibsen Quotes

A thought expressed is a falsehood. In poetry what is not said and yet gleams through the beauty of the symbol, works more powerfully on the heart than that which is expressed in words. Symbolism make...

A thought expressed is a falsehood. In poetry what is not said and yet gleams through the beauty of the symbol, works more powerfully on the heart than that which is expressed in words. Symbolism make...

Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Tags: decadence, decadents, don juan, don quixote, edgar allan poe, falstaff, faust, flaubert, goethe, hamlet

This is not a conspiracy theory; it doesn’t have to be. Societies tell themselves necessary fictions in the same way that individuals and families do. Henrik Ibsen called them vital lies, and psycholo...

Naomi Wolf

This is not a conspiracy theory; it doesn’t have to be. Societies tell themselves necessary fictions in the same way that individuals and families do. Henrik Ibsen called them vital lies, and psycholo...

Naomi Wolf

Tags: ibsen, vital lies