Reflections ought to be a gadfly; therefore their tone ought to be quite different from that of edifying discourse, which rests in mood, but reflections ought in the good sense to be impatient, high-spirited in mood. Irony is necessary here and the even more significant ingredient of the comic. One may well laugh once in a while, if only to make the thought clearer and more striking... Therefore, the reflections must fetch [persons] up out of the cellar, call to them, turn their comfortable way of thinking topsy-turvy with the dialectic of truth.
Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard
No comments:
Post a Comment