Early Life
Diogenes was born around 412 BCE in Sinope, a coastal city in Ancient Greece (now modern Turkey). His papa, Hicesias, was a banker, which suggests that his family members was likely rich. Little else is learnt about his early life, yet it is thought that Diogenes and his papa were involved in a scandal involving the defacement of Sinope's currency. Consequently, both were banished from their city, and Diogenes ultimately discovered his way to Athens, Greece.
Diogenes and Cynicism
In Athens, Diogenes joined the philosophical movement called Cynicism, which was started by Antisthenes, a trainee of Socrates. The Cynic motion stressed living a basic, virtuous life, devoid of material possessions, social standards, and also standard desires. This concentrate on living a life of purity as well as virtue enabled Diogenes to express his views on human recklessness and also pretension.
His prudent way of life as well as contempt for standard custom-mades made Diogenes one of one of the most well-known and debatable theorists in Athens. He asserted to be a "Citizen of the World" and also declined the traditional city-state as a specifying component of one's identification. Diogenes was additionally known for living in a big clay jar or a bathtub in the marketplace as well as possessing just a team, a cloak, and also a little bag for his items.
Thoughtful Teachings
Diogenes thought that humanity's natural state was just one of virtue and joy, and that society's damaging influences transformed individuals into miserable and dishonest beings. His ideology centered on discovering happiness via self-sufficiency and also living attuned to nature. Diogenes sought to expose pretension, difficulty societal norms, and prompt idea and also self-reflection in others.
Our collection contains 28 quotes who is written / told by Diogenes, under the main topic Patriotism.
"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards"
"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly"
"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little"
"We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less"
"I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals"
"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth"
"He has the most who is most content with the least"
"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music"
"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust"
"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted"
"The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them"
"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough"
"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend"
"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man"
"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad"
"The great thieves lead away the little thief"
"Blushing is the color of virtue"
"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task"
"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies"
"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one"
"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man"
"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others"
"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give"
"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be"
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world"
