--- title: "4 Deception Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard" description: "4 Deception quotes by Soren Kierkegaard. Plus more from Soren Kierkegaard and more Deception sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/soren-kierkegaard-578_cheating_to-cheat-oneself-out-of-love-is-the-most_459659.jpg" --- > [To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/to-cheat-oneself-out-of-love-is-the-most-terrible-deception-it-is-an/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/soren-kierkegaard-578_cheating_to-cheat-oneself-out-of-love-is-the-most_459659.jpg) > [Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/truth-always-rests-with-the-minority-and-the-minority-is-always/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c1/soren-kierkegaard-578_addiction_truth-always-rests-with-the-minority-and_790818.jpg) > [A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-no-does-not-hide-anything-but-a-yes-very-easily-becomes-a-deception/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b0/soren-kierkegaard-578_deception_a-no-does-not-hide-anything-but-a-yes-ve_1556001.jpg) > [Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/only-one-deception-is-possible-in-the-infinite-sense-self-deception/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/soren-kierkegaard-578_deception_only-one-deception-is-possible-in-the-in_1875023.jpg) ## Other authors on Deception - [Suzanne Finnamore 32 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/suzanne-finnamore/) - [Craig D. Lounsbrough 16 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/craig-d-lounsbrough/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-146.jpg) Francois de La Rochefoucauld 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sun-tzu-87907.jpg) Sun Tzu 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/sun-tzu/) - [Israelmore Ayivor 12 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/israelmore-ayivor/) - [Mokokoma Mokhonoana 11 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/mokokoma-mokhonoana/) - [Michael Bassey Johnson 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/michael-bassey-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marcus-aurelius-63282.jpg) Marcus Aurelius 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/marcus-aurelius/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-anil-ambani-13447.jpg) Pamela Meyer 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/pamela-meyer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pema-chodron-74476.jpg) Pema Chodron 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/pema-ch-dr-n/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paul-virilio-74221.jpg) Paul Virilio 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deception/paul-virilio/) ## 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/deception/soren-kierkegaard/#itemlist", "name": "4 Deception Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Soren Kierkegaard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/to-cheat-oneself-out-of-love-is-the-most-terrible-deception-it-is-an/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/soren-kierkegaard-578_cheating_to-cheat-oneself-out-of-love-is-the-most_459659.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/soren-kierkegaard-578_cheating_to-cheat-oneself-out-of-love-is-the-most_459659.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/soren-kierkegaard-578_cheating_to-cheat-oneself-out-of-love-is-the-most_459659.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; 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