It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?
An unexamined life is a life of no account.
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.
Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change
How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?
An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.
The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.
The unexamined leader is not worth following.
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living. " I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.
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 and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.
