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As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

— Joy Behar

Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the…

— Allan Bloom

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…

— Saul Bellow

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from…

— Eric Kandel

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find…

— Mark Van Doren

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

— Plato

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…

— Colin Quinn

There was a Socratic style of life (which the Cynics were to imitate), and the Socratic dialogue was an exercise which brought Socrates' interlocutor…

— Pierre Hadot

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a…

— Donald Barthelme

More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious…

— Alan Watts

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero