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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

Suffering and comic sense

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

Stages on Life's Way

Self-deception

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

Works of Love (1847)

Irony and earnestness

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (1846)

Inspiration of the noble-hearted

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Vol. 1 A-E (1967)

Saints out of sinners

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but He does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners.

Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers (1838)

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