123 Quotes by Diogenes

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.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Here is Plato's man.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

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

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human .

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?