Supposedly Alexander the Great went to visit Diogenes in a suburb of Corinth to see what his deal was. When Alexander asked if Diogenes wanted anything from him, Diogenes reported replied “yes, move, you’re blocking the sun.”
Afterwards, Alexander was so amused and impressed that he’s quoted as saying “it I were not Alexander, I wish I were Diogenes.”
Fucking awesome.
I seem to recall Diogenes replied:
Likewise: if I were not Diogenes I too would wish I were Diogenes
I mean it’s all probably made up but what a guy.
Diogenes was the Zlatan of philosophy.
Wasn’t he in like a barrel? That he also used as a masterbatorium?
He only used it as a masterbatorium after getting caught jerking off in public one too many times. When asked about it, he is quoted as replying “If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly.”
A song I sang in high school choir, written by Rick Sowash:
The philosopher Diogenes lived in a tub in the marketplace. He owned the clothes on his back and a wooden cup. One fine morning, when he saw a man drinking out of his hands, he threw away the cup. Alexander the Great, when he came to Athens, he went down to the market place to see the philosopher Diogenes. As he was about to leave, he asked the philosopher Diogenes, “is there anything at all that I can do for you?” “Yes,” said Diogenes, “you can get out of my light.”
What a fucking edgelord
Founder of cynicism and famously lived in a barrel. Certified based.
So just straight up Oscar the Grouch
I feel like “lived in a barrel” is probably one of those ancient history things that got exaggerated or was a straight up lie.
There’s no real way to prove the wine barrel part but it’s safe to assume he probably sheltered somewhere when it rained. Wine barrels were common and waterproof, so I would assume Diogenes watched a stray dog take shelter in an empty wine barrel and did the same based on his praise of dogs living by instinct combined with the simple practicality of finding shelter rather than making or paying for it.
Was Diogenes homeless?
Good question. Is he homeless because in our sense of the word he doesn’t own or belong to any house or particular dwelling?
Or is he not homeless because he chooses to live in the streets near the market in a barrel like the stray dogs he praises?
Cynics saw the dog as the greatest example of a virtuous life, hence the dog in the statue.
One day when a few people were throwing bones at Diogenes as they would to a dog, he got up and urinated on them like a dog.
Certified savage
Noone mentions Sam O’Nella Academy’s introduction to Diogenes?
Well, I’m doing it then: Diogenes, the Publicly-Defecating Philosopher – 11 million viewers can’t be wrong!
He was like the first famous troll
Remember when base meant vulgar?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
Jerking off in public as Diogenes was known to do is pretty vulgar
“If only rubbing my belly could satisfy my hunger” or some shit he said when others confronted him about it
Diogenes cumming on people in public compilation.
It’s ironic that Digenes’s fanboys (like the fanboys of stoicism), use his example as a model to better integrate, cope, and succeed in postmodern late-capital society.
Modeling one’s self after Digenes without being homeless is like modeling oneself after Michael Jackson without being able to dance.
Digenes looks down from eternity and invites these posers to get fucking wrecked.
I saw this earlier today and I read it as “no place to sit but his face,” because reading are hard and no smart brain
I think about, “behold, man” when anyone mentions Diogenes.
According to Diogenes Laërtius’ third-century Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers, Plato was applauded for his definition of man as a featherless biped, so Diogenes the Cynic “plucked the feathers from a cock, brought it to Plato’s school, and said, ‘Here is Plato’s man.’ ” When asked about the origin of his epithet, cynic deriving from the Greek word for dog, Diogenes replied that it was given to him because he “fawns upon those who give him anything and barks at those who give him nothing.”
Borrowed from: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/animals/miscellany/plato-and-diogenes-debate-featherless-bipeds
