"An unexamined life is not worth living"
Does anyone know where this quote came from and who said it?
Socrates (470-399 BC) said it.
I beg to differ. According to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John Barlett and Justin Kaplan, general editor (Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2002):
The life which is unexamined is not worth living. "Apology." Plato (c. 428 - 348 B.C.)
It is *quoted* in Plato's "Apology [of Socrates]."
From "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 5th Ed" :
Socrates 469-399 BC
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Plato [tr. Lane Cooper] _Apology_ 42a
Dueling quote books!!
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