Diogenes Quotes
- No man is hurt but by himself.
- Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps…
- I am looking for an honest man.
- Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
- I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
- To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill…
- Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
- Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."
- Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?
- It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
- The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
- Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
- The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
- Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
- I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
- If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
- In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
- There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
- Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
- Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.