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Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

Socrates

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Socrates
Greek - Philosopher
469 BC - 399 BC

...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.

Chris Colfer

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

Stephen Fry

"Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for."

Joseph Heller

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

Laurie Colwin

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

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

Francesca Lia Block

Life without commitment is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

A life without criticism is not worth living.

Robert Kennedy

Life without risks is not worth living.

Charles Lindbergh

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

Edward Abbey

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Jeff Buckley

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

Robert Musil

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Samuel Butler

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

Charles Lindbergh

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

Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

Stephen Fry

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