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Truth from irony

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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 (1841)

Was born on: 05.05.1813
About Author: Danish philosopher, theologian, religious author, and psychologist
Photo Source: Royal Library of Denmark

Self-deception

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

Works of Love (1847)

Anxiety is entangled freedom

Anxiety is neither a category of necessity nor a category of freedom; it is entangled freedom, where freedom is not free in itself but entangled, not by necessity, but in itself.

The Concept of Anxiety (1844)

Duty to love

When it is the duty to love the men we see, then one must first and foremost give up all fanciful and extravagant ideas about a dream world where the object of love is to be sought and found; that is, one must become sober, win actuality and truth by finding and continuing in the world of actuality as the task assigned to one.

Works of Love (1847)

Barb of sorrow

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.

The Journals of Soren Kierkegaard (1847)

Worldly people

What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world.

The Sickness unto Death (1849)

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