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is a 'negative' concept insofar as it denotes 'emptiness' or 'lack of content.

For Kierkegaard, irony is a 'negative' concept insofar as 'irony' denotes 'emptiness' or 'lack of content.'

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

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

is a device of the high bred which allows them to dress vulgarity in the most indirect and most polite terms.

Irony is to the high bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar... and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent. Edward Buller-Lytton

is a kind of intellectual tear-'gas that breaks the nerves and paralyzes the muscles of everyone in its vicinity, an acid that will corrode healthy as well as decayed tissues.

a kind of intellectual tear-'gas that breaks the nerves and paralyzes the muscles of everyone in its vicinity, an acid that will corrode healthy as well as decayed tissues.

is a stage in the cultivation of the spirit preceded by immediacy and followed by ethics, humor, and finally religiosity.

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy... then comes the ethicist, then the humorist, then the religious person. Soren Kierkegaard.

is a way of achieving a deeper understanding of and ultimately a more earnest commitment to what comes to emerge as one's final vocabulary.

For Kierkegaard, irony is a way of achieving a deeper understanding of and ultimately a more earnest commitment to what comes to emerge as one's final vocabulary.

is, along with pity, a good counselor: Irony, in smiling, makes life pleasurable while pity, who cries, makes it sacred.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable... the other, who cries, makes it sacred.Anatole France

is an abnormal development which, like the abnormality in the livers of Strasbourg geese, ends by killing the individual.

Irony is an abnormal development which, like the abnormality in the livers of Strasbourg geese, ends by killing the individual.

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