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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

— Søren Kierkegaard  <link>

that there is no finality of vision,
that I have perceived nothing completely,
that tomorrow a new walk is a new walk.

— A.R. Ammons, ending to the poem, “Corsons Inlet”  <link>

Every human situation, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus once warned, is like a vase with two handles: If you have quarreled with your brother, you can grasp the handle which is the fact that you have quarreled, or you can grasp the handle which is the fact that he is your brother.

— Joseph Bottum, “Judgment of Memory” in First Things, March 2008  <link>

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

— Leo Tolstoy  <link>

In fact, everything we encounter in this world with our six senses is an inkblot test.
You see what you are thinking and feeling, seldom what you are looking at.

— Shiqin  <link>