Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Irony

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  • Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

    "Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 504, February 28, 1846.
  • Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

  • Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

    "On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1841.
  • Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .

    "Journals and Papers". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1967.
  • Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

  • Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

    "On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1841.
  • The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

    "Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 28, 1846.
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