Cultivation Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence).…

— 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 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

“...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

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

— Agnes Repplier

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

— Anatole France

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony…

— Moss Hart

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

— John Updike

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

— Anonymous