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Examined Life Quotes

The life which is not examined is not worth living Picture Quote #1

For the unexamined life is not worth living Picture Quote #1

Socrates once said, The unexamined life is not worth living. I would expand on his thought by suggesting, The unexamined society is not worth living in Picture Quote #1

The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined! Picture Quote #1

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don’t know we have been examined until it is over Picture Quote #1

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied Picture Quote #1

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Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, ‘lawyers for humanity’. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions Picture Quote #1

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity Picture Quote #1

The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone Picture Quote #1

I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they’re steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life Picture Quote #1

An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding Picture Quote #1

Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm Picture Quote #1

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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living Picture Quote #1

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? Picture Quote #1

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be apolitical is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life Picture Quote #1

The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like ‘what is a good life?’ Socrates famously said that ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ I started asking these questions from the starting point of ‘what is success?’ Picture Quote #1

I find that it’s hard to fully examine one’s life and not have faith be part of the discussion Picture Quote #1

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself? Picture Quote #1

Linda Svendsen’s ‘Marine Life’ was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked Picture Quote #1

What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That’s what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn’t have Picture Quote #1

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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older Picture Quote #1

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives Picture Quote #1

I’ve always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I’d never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail Picture Quote #1

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it Picture Quote #1

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure Picture Quote #1

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance Picture Quote #1

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The life which is not examined is not worth living (Examined Life Quotes) For the unexamined life is not worth living (Examined Life Quotes) Socrates once said, The unexamined life is not worth living. I would expand on his thought by suggesting, The unexamined society is not worth living in. (Examined Life Quotes) The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined! (Examined Life Quotes) We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don’t know we have been examined until it is over (Examined Life Quotes) Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied (Examined Life Quotes) Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, ‘lawyers for humanity’. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions (Examined Life Quotes) Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity. (Examined Life Quotes) The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone. (Examined Life Quotes) I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they’re steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life. (Examined Life Quotes) An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding (Examined Life Quotes) Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm. (Examined Life Quotes) Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living. (Examined Life Quotes) Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? (Examined Life Quotes) Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be apolitical is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life. (Examined Life Quotes) The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth (Examined Life Quotes) 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. (Examined Life Quotes) If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else. (Examined Life Quotes) 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. (Examined Life Quotes) I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like ‘what is a good life?’ Socrates famously said that ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ I started asking these questions from the starting point of ‘what is success?’ (Examined Life Quotes) I find that it’s hard to fully examine one’s life and not have faith be part of the discussion. (Examined Life Quotes) Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself? (Examined Life Quotes) Linda Svendsen’s ‘Marine Life’ was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked. (Examined Life Quotes) What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That’s what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn’t have. (Examined Life Quotes) I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older. (Examined Life Quotes) I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives. (Examined Life Quotes) I’ve always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I’d never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail. (Examined Life Quotes) Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it. (Examined Life Quotes) Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure (Examined Life Quotes) I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance (Examined Life Quotes)

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