"Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
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“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”
“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.”
“Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.”
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“Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.”
“The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.”