An unexamined life is not worth living

Alta 2022-04-21 09:02:29

The truth of the world is limited, just like diamonds scattered everywhere, if you can pick one more, you are lucky.

A black-and-white film from the 1960s, which has been passed down to this day, still shines: it is not easy to be born as a human being, but if you turn a blind eye to the suffering of those around you, and turn a deaf ear to the most basic right and wrong, then the so-called belief or civilization , are just empty talk, such a life is no different from the puppet of the walking dead.

This film accurately illustrates Socrates' saying, an unexamined life is not worth living, because the miserable fate of others today is a reflection of yourself tomorrow.

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Hara-Kiri quotes

  • Hanshiro Tsugumo: When my master's house fell we immediately left the domain and moved to Edo. The streets of Edo were crowded with ronin - flotsam from the Battle of Sekigahara. In former times, other clans would have gladly taken in any ronin who'd earned a name for himself. But in an era no longer in need of warriors or horses, so peaceful that no wind even rustled the leaves on the trees, it was a constant struggle simply to find a meal. Indeed, it shames me to recall our miserable lives of these last eight or nine years.

  • Hanshiro Tsugumo: Who can fathom the depths of another man's heart?