A heckler in the crowd shouted out, "My mind is not made like that, I can't be bothered with philosophy.""Why do you bother to live," Diogenes retorted, "if you can't be bothered to live properly?"
Diogenes was one of the most eccentric philosophers of the ancient world. In fact, he's probably one of the most eccentric philosophers to have ever lived.
He is the father of Cynicism, but not as we know it. His cynical lifestyle was not simply negativity, pessimism and general distrust of humanity.
The man was not a misanthrope. Rather, he exercised his hope in humanity by reinforcing what people could be, and was rather angered at what they had become.
I myself have thrown my hands up in frustration at this feeling, as I imagine many of my readers have.
He was a walking protest to everything that society stood for. He would eat onions all day, he would beg out of his mobile giant bubble-house; basically, he would be as vulgar and obscene as possible.
He was on an etiquette strike, an overt protest to a social facade. He would insult conquerers and he would walk around holding a torch in daylight, 'looking for an honest man'. Unsurprisingly, he would never find one.
Whatever the case, today's Daily Quota is a collection of Diogenes quotes and anecdotes.
It's a very digestible compilation, made for entertainment over depth.
Have a read of a few, and pay tribute to a man who played the part of the Cynic to perfection.
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