He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
DIOGENESIt takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
More Diogenes Quotes
-
-
Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
DIOGENES -
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
DIOGENES -
Blushing is the color of virtue.
DIOGENES -
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES -
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
DIOGENES -
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
DIOGENES -
To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
DIOGENES -
He has the most who is most content with the least.
DIOGENES -
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
DIOGENES -
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
DIOGENES -
I am a citizen of the world.
DIOGENES -
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.
DIOGENES -
The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
DIOGENES -
If I gained one thing from philosophy is that at the very least, I am well prepared to confront any change in fortune.
DIOGENES -
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
DIOGENES