10 Bjornstjerne Bjornson Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Norwegian Writer

Born: Dec 8, 1832

Died: Apr 26, 1910

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Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Good Knowledge Evil Nothing Our Strongly Ever Conscience

Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Man Words Burden Stronger Action Carry Must Horror No Words He Takes Beyond Equal Powers Greater His Them Shoulders Description

The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Work Freedom Spiritual History Word Every Liable Draw Examples More Purpose Could Write Writer Writers Countless His Very The History Of Literature Show Who Display Reject

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Life Faith Great Justice World Sunshine Brilliant Sense Others Resources Guided Battlefield Battles Shakespeare Poetic Him Were His Sublime Times Infinite Violent Plays

A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Life Art Peace Tempest Smallest Look Uneasy Meaningful Found

A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Result Men Think Christianity Some Morality Only Attacking Investigate Investigation Dogma Historical May Who Origin Growth Honest

Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Great People Will Made Christianity Thousands Thousands Of Years Some Without Always Dogma Years Essence Endure After Us Apparatus Who Whole

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