Diogenes taught by living example. He tried to demonstrate that wisdom and happiness belong to the man who is independent of society and that civilization is regressive.
He scorned not only family and political social organization, but also property rights and reputation. He even rejected normal ideas about human decency.
Diogenes is said to have eaten in the marketplace, urinated on some people who insulted him, defecated in the theatre, and masturbated in public.
When asked about his eating in public he said, "If taking breakfast is nothing out of place, then it is nothing out of place in the marketplace. But taking breakfast is nothing out of place, therefore it is nothing out of place to take breakfast in the marketplace."
On the indecency of his masturbating in public he would say, "If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly.
Sometimes he went too far.
Once someone took Diogenes into a magnificent house and warned him not to spit in it, whereupon, having cleared his throat, he spat into the man's face, being unable, he said, to find a permissible receptacle.
view the rest of the comments →
[–] [deleted] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
[–] Tor1 [S] ago
Degen Lives Matter Harambe