The Examined Life Quotes
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
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.
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.
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
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.
I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.
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.
The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.
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.
Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.