"An unexamined life is not worth living"

Posted by Masakim on September 10, 2003

In Reply to: "An unexamined life is not worth living" posted by ESC on September 10, 2003

: : : 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

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