What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.