An over examination of life can deter you from life itself
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Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
Men of Athens, I honor and I love you, but I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet.
Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.
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.