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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard
• Life can be only understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard, "Life
• Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. -- Soren Kierkegaard
• Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
• A life lived in fear is only half lived. -- Spanish proverb
• And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality
  when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing...
• For the rule of the wise over the less wise to be advantageous .
  .. it must come about by a process of consent. And the requirement of consent can be understood only in the light of, and by recognition of, natural equality....