Premium Content Personal Quotation Essay
by Anonymous - March 31, 2009
Please choose and discuss a quotation or personal motto that reflects your values and beliefs and tells us something about the kind of person you are.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” -Socrates
As a Philosophy major, perhaps it is of little surprise that I chose this quotation. Nevertheless, I do believe it conveys better than any other who I am and what I value. If Socrates was at all correct in his assertion, then I vainly suppose my life is quite worth living. In every way, I believe…
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