Thought of the day from Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard: “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards”

We’ve all experienced it. The understanding arrives late. You only get the map after you have already walked the path, and by then you are somewhere else, walking a new one with no map at all. Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard caught this in an 1843 journal entry: “It is really true what philosophy tells us, [...] The post Thought of the day from Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard: “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards” appeared first on Space Daily .