Diogenes Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.”

“I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.”

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

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

“Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.”

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?”

“The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.”

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

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