Examined life Quote by Plato Download Open image “The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.” — Plato ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Examined life Human beings Humans Life Life is Life is not worth living Life is worth living Life worth living Philosophy Unexamined life Worth living
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living! — Adam Leipzig Copy Share Image
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.” — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.” — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share Image
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that… — Plato Copy Share
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of choice; but true friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal. –Plato-” — Plato Copy Share
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share Image
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm… — Plato Copy Share Image
“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable… — Plato Copy Share Image
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love,… — Cornel West 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 solitude and… — Thomas Ligotti 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 objectifying technical… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself. — Cornel West 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
“Thurough examination will do the healthy no harm, and it may bless the sick.” — Charles H. Spurgeon 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 a personal trait. I'm interested in lots of different things. I'm interested in business but also economics and philosophy and literature. I always like to rationalize that as helping me think about things better, or that these things… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
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 dimensions. — Martha C. Nussbaum 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 that most… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
