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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.

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Socrates
Greek - Philosopher
469 BC - 399 BC

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

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

Adam Leipzig

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

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Ergun Caner

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

Tom Hanks

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

Dan Millman

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

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Democritus

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Plato

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.

Benjamin Barber

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

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

Oscar Wilde

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

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