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Can someone confirm this quote authenticity? I tried to find it on wikiquote but i can’t and i know no other place to find such quotes
This is the first Lemmy post ever with NO SINGLE DOWNVOTE, AND YES, DARE YOU!!!
Isn’t that Cynicism?
“I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”
(after being asked by Alexander the Great what he was doing when staring into a pile of bones)
I didn’t know this episode! Wow, he rocked
the OG punk
My website’s domain name https://www.arscyni.cc/ is inspired by him and his fellow Cynics. Highly recommend their books written by Robin Hard.
“On observing how a young man was priding himself on his expensive cloak, he said, “Stop priding yourself on sharing in the good qualities of a sheep.”” ―Diogenes of Sinope (404–323 BC)
“People pray to the gods for good health, and yet most of them consistently act in such a way as to damage their health.” ―Diogenes of Sinope (404–323 BC)
To those who also feel remarkably amicable towards Diogenes/Epictetus, or any other Cynic, I’ve made an Ars Cynica chat group on Fluxer [a Discord lookalike, but superior and not corporate]. It used to have active members on Telegram but deleted it because the platform became bloated crypto crap.
Dude lived 50000 years ago and this quote still holds up so well; shows us we as humanity haven’t really advanced as much as we’d like to think
More like 2300 years ago, but yeah, he said a lot for amazing things. Several are probably even true.
As an old earth creationist he lived 100,000 years ago. The planet is 12 trillion years old after all. Don’t believe the short time propaganda
I believe the borrowed time propaganda
time cube or nothin brotha
Guy must have been an absolutely insufferable ass, though.
“behold, a man!” 🙄
I bet Plato was so up his own ass, though. Man didn’t even believe in observing the world to learn things. Someone had to take him down a few pegs.
50000?!
It was at least over 75 years ago
Give or take a few years
Yes. Never heard of that episode with his neanderthal friends?
37 cocks?!
…in a row!?
Try not to suck any dick when you walk through the parking lot!
At least! Possibly 60000! Maybe more!
It was OVER 9000 years ago!
But…but…that’s when dinosaurs ruled the earth!
Nice Otto von Schirach reference ^^
“You’re a dog!”
“Oh, is that so?” Pees him as a dog would do
Diogenes was the archetypal Cynic . He’s also very quotable.
