A Quote by John Leo
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.
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Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
Europe's leaders need to sit down with Socrates for a night; a life unexamined is not worth living. We have to remember that, as he says, the pursuit of wealth should never be at the expense of wisdom.
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?
As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
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