A Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
American - Writer
November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

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.

Colin Quinn

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.

Saul Bellow

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

Tom Robbins

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.

John Leo

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Mark Twain

An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.

Ergun Caner

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

Elizabeth Gilbert

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.

Socrates

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

Dan Millman

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.

Bettany Hughes

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

Oscar Wilde

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.