Quotes by : Diogenes

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look....

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits....

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

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

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

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.