Truth Quote by Soren Kierkegaard — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”

“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”

“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.”

“The truth is always stronger than the lie.”

“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”

“So engrained in the human heart is the desire to believe that some people really do know what they say they know, and can thus save them from the trouble of thinking for themselves, that in a short time would-be philosophers and faddists became more powerful than ever, and gradually led their countrymen to accept all those absurd views of life, some account of which I have given in my earlier chapters. Indeed I can see no hope for the Erewhonians till they have got to understand that reason uncorrected by instinct is as bad as instinct uncorrected by reason.”

“And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.”