Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Workout, Truth, Inspiration

  "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

• Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Truth, Thinking

• . . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Crowds, Praise

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

• Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Kissing, Emergencies

• Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Truth Is, Mark

• A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Race, Age

  Soren Kierkegaard (1966). “On Authority and Revelation”

• The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Desire, Majority

• The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Truth, Facts

• In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Order, Clothes

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