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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

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)

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)

Living forward

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

Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers (1843)

Tyrant and martyr

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.

The Journals of Soren Kierkegaard (1848)

Despair

When whatever causes a person to despair occurs, it is immediately evident that he has been in despair his whole life.

The Sickness unto Death (1849)

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