Diogenes quotes selection.

“The mob is the mother of tyrants.”

“He has the most who is most content with the least.”

“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”

"I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?"

"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours." 

"People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer."

“Stand out of my light.”
(Said to Alexander the Great.)


“I am looking for an honest man.”
(While carrying a lantern in daylight.)


“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”


“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.”


“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”


“The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.”


“I threw away my cup when I saw a child drinking from his hands.”


“What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.”


“Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.”


“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?”


“We have two ears and one tongue so that we may hear more and speak less.”


“Blushing is the color of virtue.”


“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”


“In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.”


“Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, wealth to the poor, and ornament to the rich.”


“If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.”
(A typically Cynic provocation against social convention.)

"No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too."

Biography of Diogenes.  (Coming Soon).