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Quote of the Day: Sage Advice
“Endless, vertiginous self-examination leads not only to a sterile moral life, but to a stilted intellectual life. Yes, examine if you must. But do it with dispatch and modesty and then get on with it. The dictum for this age should not be that the unexamined life is not worth living, but rather that the un-lived life is not worth examining. So go out and live: Act and go and seek and do. Save the psychic impact report, the memoirs and the motives for later. There will be time enough.”
– Charles Krauthammer, The Point of It All, “Three Pieces of Sage Advice,” pg. 128.
Published in Religion & Philosophy
Indeed.
vertiginous:
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From one who certainly knew how to live.
Special Report of Fox News hasn’t been the same without him. All his books are a good read. He sets the bar high for all of us who want to write incisively and beautifully.
Accurate. I’m familiar with vertigo on a regular basis, unfortunately.
I love his counsel to graduates. I have always admired him. I looked forward to reading his columns in National Review and elsewhere. When he and Sowell left around the same time, it made me sad. I’m grateful for his work.
Shauna, you don’t mean “left this earth,” do you? If you mean Tom Sowell, he’s alive and well.
I love that quote. The vast majority of people I know limit their living, but spend plenty of time absorbed in self-examination. Sad!
I know Sowell is alive and doing podcasts. :) I meant to say that I miss Sowell’s columns. It felt like he retired around the same time Charles Krauthammer died. Sorry, it was a confusing statement.
I’ve always preferred his books to his columns. But on occasion, he could really hit it out of the park.