Tao Te Ching
Henrik Ibsen
1828 – 1906 CE
"The world's 2nd most-performed playwright"
One of his time's most influential dramatists, Ibsen became—after Shakespeare—the world's most performed playwright. Considered a founder of theatre modernism and realism, he became on of the most influential playwrights of the 19th century. Examining the dark underside of his contemporary culture, many thought his works scandalous and they were both intensely loved and hated. The hated side forced him into poverty, self-imposed exile, and the wrath of critics. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 3 times, he became a strong influence on other influential writers like Eugene O'Neill, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, James Joyce, and George Bernard Shaw. One of his plays, the 1879 A Doll’s House, became almost universally popular and was still the world's most performed play in 2006
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Eras
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Romantacism (1800 – 1850 CE)Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)
Gilded Age (1860 – 1900 CE)
Victorian (1837 – 1901 CE)
American Civil War (1861 – 1865 CE)
Chinese
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Unlisted Sources
A Doll's House
An Enemy of the People (1882)
From Darkness to Light
Hedda Gabler (1890)
Peer Gynt (1867)
The Wild Duck (1884)
When We Dead Awaken (1899)
Quotes by Henrik Ibsen (16 quotes)
“The majority never had right on its side... The stupid people are an overwhelming majority all over the world. The majority has might on its side—unfortunately; but right it has not... The minority is always in the right.”
from An Enemy of the People (1882)
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“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
from An Enemy of the People (1882)
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“Rob the average man of his life-illusions and you rob him of his happiness.”
from The Wild Duck (1884)
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“What is man's first duty? To be himself.”
from Peer Gynt (1867)
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“take the Jewish people, the aristocracy of the human race—how is it they have kept their place apart, their poetical halo, amid surroundings of coarse cruelty? By having no State to burden them. Had they remained in Palestine, they would long ago have lost their individuality in the process of their State's construction, like all other nations.”
from Peer Gynt (1867)
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“Friends are a costly luxury, and when one invests one's capital in a mission in life, one cannot afford to have friends.”
from Peer Gynt (1867)
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“the only thing about liberty that I love is the fight for it; I care nothing about the possession of it.”
from Peer Gynt (1867)
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“Men and women represent two completely different kinds of consciences and therefore don't understand each other. They merit different kinds of moral law but in practice women are judged by the male rules as if they were a man.”
from A Doll's House
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“the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it.' only shows by doing so that he has just lost it.”
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“The devil is compromise.”
from From Darkness to Light
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“That man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.”
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“The State is the curse of the individual... Away with the State! I will take part in that revolution. Declare free choice and spiritual kinship to be the only all-important conditions of any union.”
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“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.”
from The Wild Duck (1884)
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“Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.”
from Hedda Gabler (1890)
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“When we dead awaken. … We see that we have never lived.”
from When We Dead Awaken (1899)
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“Forget that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that good old native word: 'lies'”
from The Wild Duck (1884)
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