A Quote by Irvin D. Yalom

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

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Irvin D. Yalom
American - Psychologist
Born: June 13, 1931

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Adam Leipzig

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Democritus

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

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

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 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

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

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

Tom Robbins

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

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