Quote #37

Neither moral concepts nor art forms can expect to live forever. How much are we obliged to hold on to? Who can guarantee that 2 plus 2 don't add up to 5 on Jupiter?

More from Henrik Ibsen

  1. I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
  2. 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.
  3. It is inexcuseable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
  4. Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.
  5. 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 m…
  6. A forest bird never wants a cage.
  7. The future cannot come, for when it comes it's already past.
  8. The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

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