Cardiophoros Quote by Sadia Hakim

“Raw humanity offends our sensibilities.”

— Barbara Lazear Ascher

Hypersensitivity has become a weapon.

— Lionel Shriver

A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at…

— Douglas Coupland

“The literal mind can never understand the ironic mind.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony…

— Ian Bogost

“People need irony in order to build interpersonal trust based on self-knowledge, humor and critical thinking.”

— Hanzi Freinacht

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“What a cruel irony it is, that we get to choose our thoughts but not our feelings.”

— Justin Wetch

“Intellectual empathy requires us to think within the viewpoints of others, especially those we think are wrong.”

— Richard W. Paul

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

— Elizabeth Bibesco