Absolutes Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a…

— Anne Hathaway

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

— Anonymous

“In an ideal world, a young man should not be an ironical person. At that age, irony prevents growth, stunts the imagination. It is…

— Julian Barnes

“...element of comedy is never completely eliminated from irony. But irony is something more than comedy. A comic situation is proved to be an…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“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

Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the…

— Mike Duncan