Quote by Robert Pogue Harrison Download Open image ““Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.”” — Robert Pogue Harrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence. — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“the thing about irony is you never see it coming; that's how you know it's there.” — Richard Christian Matheson Copy Share Image
irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Irony got dangerous when it became a habit. Wallace quoted Lewis Hyde…”Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy the cage.” Then he continued: This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It’s critical and destructive, a ground clearing…. Irony’s singularly unuseful… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share
“Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.” — Geoffrey Wall Copy Share Image
“sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on… — Mark Leidner Copy Share Image
“Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.” — Mark O'Connell Copy Share Image
“What's dangerous in the hands of the multitudes, he said, with what may or may not have been irony, is safe enough for those… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Human beings, in other words, are always already dead. This proleptic knowledge of finitude predetermines their most creative as well as their most destructive… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“And nothing . . . disquiets a rationalist more than a forest.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Soul and habitat--we are finally in a position to know this--are correlates of one another.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or the need to domesticate an environment. There is too often a deliberate rage and vengefulness at work in the assault on nature and its species, as if one would project onto the natural world the intolerable anxieties of… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share
“Our basic human institutions - religion, matrimony, and burial, also law, language, literature, and whatever else relies on the transmission of legacy - are… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization has had… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Walls protect, divide, distinguish; above all they abstract . The basic activities that sustain life . . . take place beyond walls.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
