“When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied “Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine.”” ~ Diogenes.“I am looking for an honest man.” ~ Diogenes.Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you’ve got an audience.” ~ Diogenes “Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves.“He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, “To get practice in being refused.”” ~ Diogenes.“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?” ~ Diogenes.“ Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.” ~ Diogenes.Said he – That when they speak truth they are not believed.” ~ Diogenes “Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it.I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.” ~ Diogenes “Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.” ~ Diogenes.“You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.” ~ Diogenes.“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” ~ Diogenes.“He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, “I am looking for a human.”” ~ Diogenes.“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?” ~ Diogenes.“The mob is the mother of tyrants.” ~ Diogenes.Why, in life, should we be any less alone?” ~ Diogenes “We come into the world alone and we die alone.“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.” ~ Diogenes.

It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.” ~ Diogenes It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem.

This force created nothing, it just helps things along. God is the word used to represent a force.

“Fools! You think of “god” as a sentient being.

“In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.” ~ Diogenes.

The same is true for women too.” ~ Diogenes If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. …Literally by how he interprets what happens to him.

“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.” ~ Diogenes.

“He has the most who is most content with the least.” ~ Diogenes.

“One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings” ~ Diogenes.

“If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.” ~ Diogenes.

“I pissed on the man who called me a dog.

“People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments the sound is all they have to offer.” ~ Diogenes.

If necessary, we will collect signatures and we will constantly make press releases here…we will fight until the end. We ask that the statue be removed from the entrance of Sinope and be transferred to the Balatlar building. However, we are opposed to those who try to stick the label of Greek philosophy and ideology in Sinope. In a statement made at the entrance to the city in front of the statue of the Greek thinker, Ismail Tezic, a spokesman for the Erbakan Foundation, said: The demands of the conservative “Erbakan” Religious Foundation were also accompanied by the proposal to transfer the statue from the central point where it stands today to the old, abandoned Byzantine church of the Assumption of Mary located in the city (known as Balatlar).

In 2017, protests took place by Turks who are ideologically close to the Turkish radical Islamic neo-Ottomanism for the removal of the statue, as they claim that it insidiously connects the “Greek ideology” with the people and city of Sinope. However, this was said by Diogenes not in modern Sinope but in ancient Athens, and his philosophical discourse was, of course, purely contemplative.

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