Quotes by Kierkegaard, Soren

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know >>

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought >>

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many liv >>

Quotations about Irony

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the >>

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of h >>

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. >>

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.

Kierkegaard, Soren