The unexamined life is not worth living.
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.
It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.
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."
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.
...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not wait for the government to tell it what to do, or to wait for the consumer to tell it what to do, but as soon as it finds out it's doing something wrong, stop doing it.
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
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 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 examined life is no picnic.
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.
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.
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