January 15, 2005 - 1:51 p.m. "Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined life but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living. Descartes too was mistaken; 'Cogito ergo sum'--'I think, therefore I am'? Nonsense. 'Amo ergo sum'--'I love, therefore I am.' Or, as with unconscious eloquence St. Paul wrote, 'Now abide faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.' I believe that. I believe it is better not to live than not to love." --William Sloane Coffin ...before & after...