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, " 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.

But Kierkegaard says " the pathos of the ethical is to act.

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.

Furthermore, a philosopher such as Søren Kierkegaard believed that knowledge of God is actually impossible, and because of that people who want to be theists must believe: " If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

If a situation ( occasion for Kierkegaard ) makes an individual aware of his authentic self and the individual fails to choose that self that constitutes bad faith.

" Kierkegaard puts it this way in another book, " We shall not say with the Preacher ( Ecclesiastes 4: 10 ), ‘ Woe to him who is alone ; if he falls, there is no one else to raise him up ,” for God is indeed still the one who both raises up and casts down, for the one who lives in association with people and the solitary one ; we shall not cry, “ Woe to him ,” but surely an “ Ah, that he might not go astray ,” because he is indeed alone in testing himself to see whether it is God ’ s call he is following or a voice of temptation, whether defiance and anger are not mixed embitteringly in his endeavor.

Here Kierkegaard is using the story of Abraham to help himself

Due to a car accident he missed most of his first-year seminary studies, and during that year he immersed himself in the works of Kant and Kierkegaard.

He is often classified as one of the earliest existentialists, although he dreaded being placed in the same category as Jean-Paul Sartre ; Marcel came to prefer the label " neo-Socratic " ( possibly because of Søren Kierkegaard, the father of Christian existentialism, who was a neo-Socratic thinker himself ).

According to Kierkegaard, an individual is " in despair " if he does not align himself with God or God's plan for the self.

The phrase is commonly attributed to Søren Kierkegaard ; however, he himself never used the term, as he referred to a leap as a leap to faith.

Kierkegaard has Don Juan in Either / Or escort young girls " all in the dangerous age of being neither grown-up nor children " to " the other side of the ditch of life " as he, himself, " dances over the abyss " only to " instantly sink down into the depths.

What is often missed is that Kierkegaard himself was an orthodox Scandinavian Lutheran in conflict with the liberal theological establishment of his day.

The difference between Kierkegaard and Marx is that one applied everything to himself while the other applied everything to the other or to the whole world.

Regine had also made a strong impression on Kierkegaard, who began to pursue her over a long period of time, ingratiating himself first as a friend and later attempting to court her.

Throughout the following year, Kierkegaard threw himself into his work.

* to establish a new complete edition of all of Kierkegaard ’ s writings: the works he himself had published, as well as the ones he left unfinished.

This was a fight that Kierkegaard, to a certain degree, started himself when he under the pseudonym Frater Taciturnus in a five page article called The Work of a Travelling Aesthete ( En omreisende Æsthetikers Virksomhed ) in The Fatherland ( Fædrelandet ) on the 27.

Johannes, who went insane studying Søren Kierkegaard, believes himself to be Jesus Christ and wanders the farm condemning the age's lack of faith, including that of his family and the modern-minded new pastor of the village.

God's goal is to make himself understood and, according to Kierkegaard, he has three options.

Kierkegaard explores how a contemporary of Christ and succeeding generations receive the “ condition ” necessary to understand the Paradox that God has permitted himself to be born and wrapped in swaddling-clothes.