Philosophy Quote by Diogenes

“Bones were bones; these days, nothing was easier to come by.”

— George R.R. Martin

“If I could not be alexander I would be Diogenes”

— Alexander the Great

“The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation’s leading anatomist, who described it at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in…

— Bill Bryson

“The sarcophagus was huge. Nearly a ton in weight and almost as wide as it was long. He squeezed around it patting it with…

— Julian Noyce

“Elizabeth [Alexander] is right, of course. It’s a stirring fact that our slave ancestors left behind not documents of property but an incredible amount…

— Anonymous

“When we were lying helpless on the floor, he saw us. When we were crying from breathing the toxic air of this world, he…

— Gerrit Dawson

“Alexander was no longer so much the master of his lust, having been fawned upon by Fortune, whom mortal men too little distrust.”

— Andrew Chugg

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

— Francis Quarles

“When Alexander The Great was alive the world was not big enough to contain his ambition but while Alexander chafed at the confines of…

— Juvenal

“King Alexander, the son of Ammon and of Philip the king, also supreme king of Europe and all Asia, Egypt and Libya, to the…

— Richard Stoneman

“One day they’d find the bones of a man, not realizing that the beast inside of his body was actually what killed him.”

— Sarah Noffke

“This Aristotle knew definitely: the truth has the power to force or constrain men, all men alike, whether it be the great Parmenides and…

— Lev Shestov