Life Must Be Understood Backwards, But Lived Forwards

Kierkegaard Life Must Be Understood Backwards But Lived Forwards, thoughtsofgod.com, Thoughts of God, David Reese

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. Which principle, the more one thinks it through, ends exactly with the thought that temporal life can never properly be understood precisely because I can at no instant find […]