Henrik Ibsen

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

“Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog?

It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.”
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Henrik Ibsen was born on 20 March 1828.

19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet often referred to as "the father of realism" -  one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre.

Major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.