The Wisdom of Hindsight

/ Alexander Atkins

It is quite true what philosophy says: that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Soren Kierkegaard, Volume IV (1843). The quotation is often paraphrased: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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