So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.
We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.
We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.