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“History is a game played backwards only.”

Games History Backwards

Book:Circles on the Water

Source: Circles on the Water

“Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.”

Believe Looks History Historian Backwards Crabs

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.”

History Century Ten Immortality Backwards Upside Down

Book:Catherine-Paris

Source: Catherine-Paris

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

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Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”

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Author:Edmund Burke

“The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.”

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Author:Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp