The unexamined life is not worth living.

ho anexetastos bios ou biōtos anthrōpōi

Plato

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Plato

Ancient Greek philosopher born c. 427 BC in Athens. Shaken by Socrates' execution, he founded the Academy and developed the Theory of Forms. Whitehead called all Western philosophy a series of footnotes to Plato.

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Plato's Other Quotes

I know that I do not know.

Imagine prisoners chained underground since childhood, seeing only shadows on a wall and taking them for reality.

Unless philosophers rule as kings, or kings genuinely philosophize, there will be no end to troubles for states.

There is no envy in the good.

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