Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
More Quotes from Soren Kierkegaard:
The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed.Soren Kierkegaard
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Soren Kierkegaard
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.
Soren Kierkegaard
To the frivolous, Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious
Soren Kierkegaard
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