Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

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

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• 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
  • Spirits
  • Religious Person
  • Ethicist