--- title: "5 Crowds Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard" description: "5 Crowds quotes by Soren Kierkegaard. Plus more from Soren Kierkegaard and more Crowds sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/739/soren-kierkegaard-578_crowds_wherever-there-is-a-crowd-there-is-untru_1281101.jpg" --- > [Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/wherever-there-is-a-crowd-there-is-untruth/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/739/soren-kierkegaard-578_crowds_wherever-there-is-a-crowd-there-is-untru_1281101.jpg) > [In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/in-the-eyes-of-god-the-infinite-spirit-all-the-millions-that-have/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9a/soren-kierkegaard-578_crowds_in-the-eyes-of-god-the-infinite-spirit-a_1415936.jpg) > [. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-larger-the-crowd-the-more-probable-that-that-which-it-praises-is/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b6/soren-kierkegaard-578_crowds_the-larger-the-crowd-the-more-probable-t_2353119.jpg) > [Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/spiritual-superiority-only-sees-the-individual-but-alas-ordinarily-we/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/soren-kierkegaard-578_abstract_spiritual-superiority-only-sees-the-indi_2901144.jpg) > [Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/christ-was-crucified-because-he-would-have-nothing-to-do-with-the/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ae/soren-kierkegaard-578_art_christ-was-crucified-because-he-would-ha_3196560.jpg) ## Other authors on Crowds ## More by Soren Kierkegaard > [Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/christianity-does-not-oppose-debauchery-and-uncontrollable-passions/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/christians-remind-me-of-schoolboys-who-want-to-look-up-the-answers-to/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/people-commonly-travel-the-world-over-to-see-rivers-and-mountains-new/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-strange-thing-happened-to-me-in-my-dream-i-was-rapt-into-the/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/that-which-is-truly-human-no-generation-learns-from-the-one-before-it/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-man-may-perform-astonishing-feats-and-comprehend-a-vast-amount-of/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Be that self which one truly is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/be-that-self-which-one-truly-is/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-go-fishing-for-a-thousand-monsters-in-the-depths-of-my-own-self/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/in-addition-to-my-other-numerous-acquaintances-i-have-one-more/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-greatest-danger-to-christianity-is-i-contend-not-heresies-not/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Future is everything that past has forgotten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/future-is-everything-that-past-has-forgotten/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Without risk, faith is an impossibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/without-risk-faith-is-an-impossibility/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-have-only-one-confidant-and-that-is-the-silence-of-night/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-road-well-begun-is-the-battle-half-won-the-important-thing-is-to/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-have-i-believe-the-courage-to-doubt-everything-i-have-i-believe-the/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crowds/soren-kierkegaard/#itemlist", "name": "5 Crowds Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Soren Kierkegaard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/wherever-there-is-a-crowd-there-is-untruth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/739/soren-kierkegaard-578_crowds_wherever-there-is-a-crowd-there-is-untru_1281101.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/739/soren-kierkegaard-578_crowds_wherever-there-is-a-crowd-there-is-untru_1281101.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/739/soren-kierkegaard-578_crowds_wherever-there-is-a-crowd-there-is-untru_1281101.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.” — Soren Kierkegaard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. 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