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An idea · Classical Greek · first attested 399 BCE

The Examined Life

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates' line from his trial, when he refused to stop philosophizing in exchange for acquittal. Philosophy is not just a discipline; it is a way of being alive. To live without ever asking why you live as you do is, on his view, to live below the human possibility.