Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience. The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. Diogenes turned to him and replied."Get out of my sunlight".
On another account, an excited Alexander thrilled to have met Diogenes, turned to him and asked what favor he could do for him. "I am searching for the bones of your father, but cannot distinguish them from the bones of a slave".
At the slave market in Crete, it’s claimed that Diogenes pointed to a Corinthian named Xeniades and said: Sell me to this man he needs a master. This was probably pre-arranged by someone he had offended in Athens or Sinope. On his meeting with Alexander the Great, Diogenes is believed to have been rummaging through a pile of bones, and turned to Alexander and said. While travelling Aegina by ship, Diogenes was kidnapped and sold into slavery. He used to stroll around town in broad daylight holding a lantern and saying." I am looking for an honest man". Georg Christoph Lichtenberg tags: diogenes, plato, pride 23 likes Like Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. He adopted his principles by living out in the open (in a tub), wearing nothing more than a cloak and surviving on a diet consisting mostly of onions. He often ridiculed the wealthy and those who lived civilised lives. Young men ought not to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
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Both Antisthenes and Diogenes are called the founders of the school that's known as Cynicism.ĭiogenes' philosophy was based on a simple life free of luxuries and ambitions. Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad. Here he became a pupil of Antisthenes who was the head of the cynics, but it was not long before Diogenes surpassed his master in terms of reputation. Diogenes was included in the charge however escaped and went to Athens. His father Icesias, a banker, was imprisoned or exiled on the charge of adulterating the coinage. According to Diogenes Laertius, he died on the same day as Alexander the Great in 323BC, most probably in Corinth at about 90 years of age. Metropolitan Museum of Art.ĭiogenes 'the cynic' of Sinope was a philosopher and as his name suggests, was born in Sinope, Pontus (current day Turkey) in 412 BC although some sources have his birth at 399BC. The Philosopher Diogenes in Search of an Honest Man.
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