Socrates (footballer) Quotes

[http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv2-70 Extended discourse in Dictionary of the History of Ideas]

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.

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

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

?You like irony now too?”
“Irony tastes good. Like sausage.”

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.