« All Backwards Quotes · Soren Kierkegaard's Page
Backwards Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
- Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
- Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be…
- 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.
- 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…
- Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
- Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
- Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. --Soren Kierkegaard
More Backwards Quotes
- I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. — Syd Barrett
- The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside… — Roberto Benigni
- Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. — Aneurin Bevan
- There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or… — Jeff Bezos
- I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on… — Michael Biehn
- People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see… — Linda Blair
- Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. — Elizabeth Bowen
- I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
- Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
- It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. — David Byrne
- It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. — Lewis Carroll