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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

A new Socrates

People think the world needs a new republic, and they think it needs a new social order, and a new religion, but it never occurs to anyone that what the world really needs, confused as it is by much learning, is a new Socrates.

The Sickness unto Death (1849)

Living forward

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers (1843)

Truth

The thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.

Letter to Peter Wilhelm (1835)

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)

A poet is an unhappy man

What is a poet? An unhappy man who conceals profound anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so fashioned that when sighs and groans pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Either / Or (1843)

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