Kierkegaard – Works of Love, p. 23, 1847 (?)
"If it were true—as conceited shrewdness, proud of not being deceived,
thinks—that one should believe nothing which one cannot see by means of
her/his physical eyes, then first and foremost one ought to give up
believing in love. If one did this and did it out of fear of being
deceived, would not one then be deceived? Indeed, one can be deceived in
many ways; one can be deceived in believing what is untrue, but on the
other hand, one is also deceived in not believing what is true; one can
be deceived by appearances, but one can also be deceived by the
superficiality of shrewdness, by the flattering conceit which is
absolutely certain that it cannot be deceived.
Which deception is most dangerous?"
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