What I was really saying in 'The Examined Life' was that I was no longer as hardcore a libertarian as I had… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of… — Jennifer Nettles Copy Share Image
“Novels expose man to the nuances of life through the thought process of their protagonists to form the foundation for its understanding… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Self-doubt was a luxury, as, perhaps, was the examined life. And yet the examined life, as the adage had it, was the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer… offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living."… — John Leo Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
“There are all these things that you never know whether they're features or bugs- in a company or organization, or even in… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“When I examined my own life, I realized that I had been standing at the foot of my mother's casket for 35… — Nathaniel J. Williams Copy Share Image
...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“How, I wondered, can we wake up for this amazing journey that is so quickly ended? How can we experience the live… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“Thurough examination will do the healthy no harm, and it may bless the sick.” — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class. — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
