NOUN
- an ancient Greek philosopher and Cynic who rejected social conventions (circa 400-325 BC)
How To Use Diogenes In A Sentence
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers by the third-century doxographer Diogenes Laertius, whose work was an influential discovery of Italian humanism. Loss of Faith
- Shortly after the Greek warrior had arrived in Taxila in northern India, he sent a messenger, Onesikritos, a disciple of the Hellenic school of Diogenes, to fetch an Indian teacher, Dandamis, a great sannyasi of Taxila. Autobiography of a Yogi
- We started our bushwalk at the edge of another clear-cut, this one beside Diogenes Creek.
- The most extensive ancient report about the Cynics is found in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 6, although he is not a reliable source.
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- Thus Diogenes' material often comes to us at several removes from the original.
- Pure objectivity may be impossible in a subjective world, but like Diogenes and his search for an honest man, impartiality is hardly an unrewarding lamp to follow. An Interview with Thomas Steinbeck
- Diogenes famously joked that if humans are a featherless biped, then a plucked chicken is human. Matthew Yglesias » Kathryn Jean-Lopez and Rush Limbaugh Are Not Very Intelligent
- Among the representations of fossors in the catacombs the one best known, through Wiseman's "Fabiola", is that of the fossor Diogenes, discovered by Boldetti. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- (The passage from Diogenes quoted in the previous section, according to which Pyrrho held “that human beings do everything by convention and habit” is not necessarily in conflict with this; by ˜human beings™ Pyrrho might have meant ordinary human beings, among whom he would not have included himself.) Picnic