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The examined life is no picnic. -- Robert Fulghum
I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life. -- Alice McDermott
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
The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates
for the unexamined life is not worth living. -- Plato
An unexamined life is a life of no account. -- Socrates
The examined life is the only life worth living. -- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. -- Plato
The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class. -- Edgar Friedenberg
An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding. -- Ergun Caner
Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm. -- Christopher Titus
How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? -- Jack Heffron
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. -- Tom Robbins
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living! -- Adam Leipzig
I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another. -- Dov Davidoff
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. -- Dan Millman
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living. -- Irvin D. Yalom
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all. -- Mark Twain
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. -- Nicole Kidman
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
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
Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life. -- Rebecca Solnit
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
Socrates once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." I would expand on his thought by suggesting, "The unexamined society is not worth living in. -- Eileen Workman
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 place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life, -- Barbara Kruger
Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart. -- Mary Oliver
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge. -- Roger Ebert
Socrates told us, the unexamined life is not worth living. I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge. -- Roger Ebert
If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else. -- Thomas Ligotti
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The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth. -- Walter Lippmann
Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life. -- Donald Phillip Verene
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
Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business that most businessmen don't want to hear about. They just want to call a fabric manufacturer, and say, "Hey, give us 10,000 yards of shirting." -- Yvon Chouinard
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?' -- Arianna Huffington
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. -- Bill Watterson
I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. -- J. J. Abrams
Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself? -- Jules Verne
After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things. -- Linda Cardellini
The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world. -- Tomas Borge
The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience. -- Dario Argento
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked. -- Michael Winter
I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance. -- Moby
What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have. -- Helen McCrory
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older. -- Ian Anderson
Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity. -- Jamie Cullum
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives. -- Robert Caro
I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships. -- Jodie Foster
There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting. -- Fred Frith
A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds. -- William Shatner
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life. -- Alex Campbell
I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail. -- Edmund White
The life which is not examined is not worth living. -- Plato
Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied. -- Louise Rennison
The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone. -- Jim Gaffigan
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it. -- Terence McKenna
We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over. -- John Bevere
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. -- Susan Orlean
The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined! -- Leonard Ravenhill

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