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Lived Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression…
- Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
- Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
- The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it…
- Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived…
- The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to…
- And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual…
- In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly…
- 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
- Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
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