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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

3798	An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett]
	Full Idea: The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is nothing to write home about either.
	From: Daniel C. Dennett (Elbow Room: varieties of free will [1984], §4.2)
	A reaction: Presumably he means a life which is all theory and no practice. Compare Idea 343.