He also defines the term “ skepticism ” as he uses it and identifies two types of skeptic, the Apollonian, who is “ committed to clarity and rationality ” and the Dionysian, who is “ committed to passion and instinct .” William James, Bertrand Russell, and Friedrich Nietzsche exemplify the Apollonian skeptic, Carroll says, and Charles Sanders Peirce, Tertullian, Søren Kierkegaard, and Blaise Pascal are Dionysian skeptics.

Kierkegaard says, " Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so anyone who has not made this movement does not have faith, for only in infinite resignation does an individual become conscious of his eternal validity, and only then can one speak of grasping existence by virtue of faith.

Kierkegaard says, " No one who was great in the world will be forgotten, but everyone was great in his own way, and everyone in proportion to the greatness of that which he loved.

Kierkegaard says that everyone has a choice in life.

Kierkegaard says Hegel was wrong because he didn't protest against Abraham as the father of faith and call him a murderer.

" Johannes Climacus, another, pseudonymous author, says, in 1846, Kierkegaard isn't interested in creating yet another system.

Kierkegaard says, " Greek tragedy is blind.

Kierkegaard says, " If Agamemnon himself, not Calchas, should have drawn the knife to kill Iphigenia, he would only have demeaned himself if in the very last moment he had said a few words, for the meaning of his deed was, after all, obvious to everybody, the process of reverence, sympathy, emotion, and tears was completed, and then, too, his life had no relation to spirit-that is, he was not a teacher or a witness of the spirit.

Kierkegaard says, " wishing to be in the wrong is an expression of an infinite relationship, and wanting to be in the right, or finding it painful to be in the wrong, is an expression of a finite relationship!

Kierkegaard says, " By my own strength I cannot get the least little thing that belongs to finitude, for I continually use my strength to resign everything.

Kierkegaard says the young man who was in love with the princess learned ' the deep secret that even in loving another person one ought to be sufficient to oneself.

She says, Kierkegaard wrote Either / Or, Fear and Trembling, and Repetition as a way to get over Regine.

In Volume 2 he says the following about Soren Kierkegaard: " It is not merely in name that this irony bears a fundamental resemblance to Kierkegaard's, which also aristocratically " chooses to be misunderstood ".

Kierkegaard says thinking should serve by thinking something.

When Christianity becomes a scholarly enterprise one tends to " reflect oneself into Christianity " but Kierkegaard says, one should " reflect oneself out of something else and become, more and more simply, a Christian.

Kierkegaard says, either believe or be offended.

Kierkegaard says,

Kierkegaard says a " change has taken place within him like the change from non-being to being.

Kierkegaard says Reason " collides " with the knowledge of the Unknown.

" Kierkegaard says Christ offers every single individual the " invitation.

Kierkegaard says the “ coming-into-existence is a kind of change, but is not a change in essence but in being and is a transition from not existing to existing.

Kierkegaard says, " By Baptism Christianity gives him a name, and he is a Christian de nomine ( by name ); but in the decision he becomes a Christian and gives Christianity his name.

Kierkegaard says " Faith, self-active, relates itself to the improbable and the paradox, is self-active in discovering it and in holding it fast at every moment-in order to be able to believe.

Kierkegaard says God comes into existence again and again for each single individual.

Published in two volumes in 1843, Either / Or ( original Danish title: Enten ‒ Eller ) is an influential book written by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, exploring the aesthetic and ethical " phases " or " stages " of existence.

Kierkegaard used the ethical system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the aesthetic stories of Agnes and the merman, Iphigenia at Aulis and others to help the reader understand the difference between the inner world of the spirit and the outer world of ethics and aesthetics.

The detailed exposition elucidates Abraham's situation dialectically and lyrically, bringing out as problemata the teleological suspension of the ethical, the assumption of an absolute duty toward God, and the purely private character of Abraham's procedure ; thus showing the paradoxical and transcendent character of a relation in which the individual, contrary to all rule, is precisely as an individual, higher than the community .” Scandinavian Studies and Notes Volume VI, No. 7 August 1921 David F. Swenson: Soren Kierkegaard p. 21

Kierkegaard also proposed three rubrics with which to understand the conditions that issue from distinct life choices: the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious.

Where the animal is a slave to its instincts but always conscious in its own actions, Kierkegaard believed that the freedom given to people leaves the human in a constant fear of failing his / her responsibilities to God.

Kierkegaard argues that the cogito already pre-supposes the existence of " I ", and therefore concluding with existence is logically trivial.

For Kierkegaard, Descartes is merely " developing the content of a concept ", namely that the " I ", which already exists, thinks.

Kierkegaard argues that the value of the cogito is not its logical argument, but its psychological appeal: a thought must have something that exists to think the thought.

) But as Kierkegaard argues, the proper logical flow of argument is that existence is already assumed or pre-supposed in order for thinking to occur, not that existence is concluded from that thinking.

Søren Kierkegaard, generally considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, posited that it is the individual who is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and for living life passionately and sincerely (" authentically ").

In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard writes that: "... to be able to fall down in such a way that the same second it looks as if one were standing and walking, to transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime and the pedestrian -- that only these knights of faith can do -- this is the one and only prodigy.

Where Hegel argues that an ultimate understanding of the logical structure of the world is an understanding of the logical structure of God's mind, Kierkegaard asserting that for God reality can be a system but it cannot be so for any human individual because both reality and humans are incomplete and all philosophical systems imply completeness.

A taste for paradox is central to the philosophies of Laozi, Heraclitus, Meister Eckhart, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, among many others.

Søren Kierkegaard questioned the existence of God, rejecting all rational arguments for God's existence ( including the teleological argument ) on the grounds that reason is inevitably accompanied by doubt.

Absurdism itself is a branch of the traditional assertions of existentialism, pioneered by Søren Kierkegaard, and posits that, while inherent meaning might very well exist in the universe, human beings are incapable of finding it due to some form of mental or philosophical limitation.

The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, following Hume and Johann Georg Hamann, a Humean scholar, agrees with Hume's definition of a miracle as a transgression of a law of nature, but Kierkegaard, writing as his pseudonym Johannes Climacus, regards any historical reports to be less than certain, including historical reports of such miracle transgressions, as all historical knowledge is always doubtful and open to approximation.

Søren Kierkegaard ( a Danish philosopher ) is frequently included in surveys of German ( or Germanic ) philosophy due to his extensive engagement with German thinkers.

Møller is perhaps best known for relationship with Søren Kierkegaard.

There is also significant common ground between the philosophical views of Møller and Kierkegaard, in large part due to Møller's tutelage.

It is generally believed that Møller had a maieutic relationship with Kierkegaard, hence Kierkegaard's description of Møller as, “ the confidant of Socrates ”.

Existentialism as a philosophical movement is properly a 20th-century movement, but its major antecedents, Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche wrote long before the rise of existentialism.

Absurdism is very closely related to existentialism and nihilism and has its origins in the 19th century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who chose to confront the crisis humans faced with the Absurd by developing existentialist philosophy.