Life Quote by Socrates

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

— Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not…

— Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

— Plato

“(...)while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.”

— Robert McKee

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

“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

Early on in this book, I quoted Socrates's famous dictum that, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Let me now turn the phrase…

— Jo Coudert

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

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

— Irvin D. Yalom

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

— Adam Leipzig

“if they did not interrogate their most fundamental beliefs, they would live superficial, expedient lives, because “the unexamined life is not worth living.”7”

— Karen Armstrong