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Understood Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more…
- Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
- Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
- It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express…
- ...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If…
- 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…
- I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
- 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
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- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than… — John Adams
- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. — Charles Baudelaire
- Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others. — Martha Beck
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- Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood. — Jacqueline Bisset