Backwards Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The backward look behind the assurance Of recorded history, the backward half-look Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.”

— T.S. Eliot

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

— Madeleine Albright

The historian is a prophet facing backwards.

— Friedrich Von Schlegel

“The historian is a prophet looking backwards.”

— Friedrich Von Schlegel

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

— Anonymous

Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at…

— Reinhard Bendix

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

— Edward Bellamy

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming…

— Terry Eagleton

Here dull and hopeless he'd liedown and trace How sidelong crabs had scrawled their crooked race;

— Anonymous

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

— Laurie Anderson

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

— Edmund Snow Carpenter