A Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.
Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.
History is written backwards but lived forwards.
We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.
I only move forwards, never backwards, darling.
Life can only be understood backwards.
Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.
There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.
I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.
You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.
It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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