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

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

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 majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.