Quote by Kierkegaard, Søren

"It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards."

Kierkegaard, Søren Time
Philosopher-Theologian Danish 1813–1855

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