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Life is understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.

28 May 2020 By Andrew Leave a Comment

Søren Kierkegaard

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It is quite true what philosophy says, that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward.

— /Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 2/ Kierkegaard, Søren, et al., Journal JJ:167 1843, p179, Princeton University Press, 2015.

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