Examined life Quotes

“The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.”

“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”

“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.”

“In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man.”

“An examined life, an enigmatic investigation of reality, is required in order for a person to realize a transcendent spiritual journey. A contemplative soul is bound to live life more intensely than someone whom is concerned exclusively with living an external existence.”

“We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.”

“Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.”

“Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.”

“For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.”