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An unexamined life is a life of no account.

Socrates

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Socrates
Greek - Philosopher
469 BC - 399 BC

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

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

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

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

Most people appear to live an unexamined life, cruising through the years without much reflection about what it means, and/or taking what life hands them and believing it's all predestined.

Steve Blank

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

Dan Millman

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

Mark Twain

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.

Socrates

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Democritus

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

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

William Sloane Coffin

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.

Socrates

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

Tom Robbins

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