From Life of Diogenes: " Someone took him into a magnificent house and warned him not to spit, whereupon, having cleared his throat, he spat into the man's face, being unable, he said, to find a meaner receptacle.

Diogenes further describes this river as having its source near the Mountains of the Moon, near the swamp whence the Nile was said to also have its source.

Anaxarchus is said to have studied under Diogenes of Smyrna, who in turn studied under Metrodorus of Chios, who used to declare that he knew nothing, not even the fact that he knew nothing.

" Diogenes relates that as a boy Heraclitus had said he " knew nothing " but later claimed to " know everything.

According to Simplicius, Diogenes the Cynic said nothing upon hearing Zeno's arguments, but stood up and walked, in order to demonstrate the falsity of Zeno's conclusions.

" Diogenes looked for a human being but reputedly found nothing but rascals and scoundrels.

Diogenes had nothing but disdain for Plato and his abstract philosophy.

Diogenes Laërtius, on the authority of Sotion and Panaetius, gives a long list of books whose authorship is ascribed to Aristippus, though he also says that Sosicrates of Rhodes states that he wrote nothing.

Diogenes Laërtius, on the authority of Sotion and Panaetius, provides a long list of books said to have been written by Aristippus, though he also says that Sosicrates stated that he wrote nothing.

Because of his early association with the Academy, Diogenes Laërtius placed Bion among the Academics, but there is nothing in his life or thought suggesting an affinity with Platonism and modern scholars regard him as a Cynic, albeit an atypical one with strong Hedonistic or Cyrenaic leanings.

Both Plutarch and Diogenes Laertius ( 3rd century ) mention that Thales studied in Egypt, whilst nothing is really known about Thales from his own time.

The accounts of Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius recount that they exchanged only a few words: while Diogenes was relaxing in the sunlight in the morning, Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him.

Diogenes believed human beings live artificially and hypocritically and would do well to study the dog.

Diogenes Laërtius speaks of Philolaus composing one book, but elsewhere he speaks of three books, as do Aulus Gellius and Iamblichus.

Under one of these emperors, Romanos IV Diogenes ( 1067 – 1071 ), Alexios served with distinction against the Seljuq Turks.

* Diogenes of Sinope ( 412 – 323 BC ), Greek philosopher

* January 1 – Eudocia Macrembolitissa marries the general Romanus Diogenes, who becomes Byzantine Emperor.

* 412 BC – Diogenes of Sinope, philosopher

* Diogenes of Sinope ( 412 – 323 BC ), better known as Diogenes the Cynic or simply Diogenes, philosopher

* Diogenes of Babylon or " Diogenes the Stoic " ( c. 230 – c. 150 BC ), Stoic philosopher from Seleucia, frequently confused with the following

* Diogenes of Byzantium, bishop of Byzantium, 114 – 129 CE

* Diogenes Laërtius ( between 200 – 500 CE ), historian

* Romanos IV Diogenes ( died 1072 ), Byzantine emperor 1068 – 1071, son of Constantine Diogenes

While tending his father's sheep, he is said to have fallen asleep for fifty-seven years in a Cretan cave sacred to Zeus, after which he reportedly awoke with the gift of prophecy ( Diogenes Laertius i. 109 – 115 ).

A remarkable statement mentioned by Diogenes Laertius ( c. 250 AD ) is the earliest ( or at least one of the earliest ) references about plausible centenarian longevity given by a scientist, the astronomer Hipparchus of Nicea ( c. 185 – c. 120 BC ), who, according to the doxographer, was assured that the philosopher Democritus of Abdera ( c. 470 / 460 – c. 370 / 360 BC ) lived 109 years.

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In 1664 he published at London an edition of the Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius that contains an unedited anonymous life of Aristotle ; this life was known as ' Vita Menagiana ' before the critical edition by Ingemar Düring, Aristotle in the ancient biographical tradition Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1957 ; reprinted New York, Garland, 1987, pp. 80 – 93 ) with the title ' Vita Hesychii ' ( the attribution to Hesychius of Miletus is controversial ).

The Stoics, who later took Diogenes ' idea and developed it into a full blown concept, typically stressed that each human being " dwells in two communities – the local community of our birth, and the community of human argument and aspiration ".

Diogenes of Sinope – depicted by Jean-Léon GérômeCynicism (), in its original form, refers to the beliefs of an ancient school of Greek philosophers known as the Cynics (, ).

* Diogenes ( Di ) – A dog from the school, befriended by Paul and adopted by Florence after Paul's death

In this course Foucault tries to establish an alternative conception of militancy and revolution through a reading of Diogenes and Cynicism.

According to Claudius Ptolemy, Diogenes, a merchant in the Indian trade, was blown off course from his usual route from India, and after travelling 25 days south along the African coast arrived at Rhapta, located where the river of the same name enters the Indian Ocean opposite the island of Menouthis.

:" He marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skillful in a thing vie in competition ; those who have no skill, judge " — Diogenes Laertius, of Anacharsis.

In comparison, Socrates accepted no fee, instead professed a self-effacing posture, which he exemplified by Socratic questioning ( i. e. the Socratic method, although Diogenes Laertius wrote that Protagoras — a sophist — invented the " Socratic " method ).

Unlike with Aristotle, we have no complete works by the Megarians or the early Stoics, and have to rely mostly on accounts ( sometimes hostile ) by later sources, including prominently Diogenes Laertius, Sextus Empiricus, Galen, Aulus Gellius, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Cicero.

Crates wrote a book of letters on philosophical subjects, the style of which is compared by Diogenes Laërtius to that of Plato ; but these no longer survive.

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There are many later tales about the infamous Cynic Diogenes of Sinope dogging Antisthenes ' footsteps and becoming his faithful hound, but it is no means certain that the two men ever met.

Diogenes says that he left no writings, and the Eretrian school disappeared after a short and unobtrusive existence.

Diogenes responds, " Strike, for you will find no wood hard enough to keep me away from you, so long as I think you've something to say.

An exile and an outcast, a man with no social identity, Diogenes made a mark on his contemporaries.

no: Diogenes fra Sinope

The anecdotes which are told of him ( there are many in Diogenes Laërtius ,) by no means give us the notion of a person who was the mere slave of his passions, but rather of one who took a pride in extracting enjoyment from all circumstances of every kind, and in controlling adversity and prosperity alike.

Although there is no hint in the original Sherlock Holmes canon that the Diogenes Club is anything but what it seems to be, several later writers have developed and made use of the idea that the club was founded as a front for the British secret service.

These works were no doubt on philosophical subjects, and Diogenes mentions On Sensations, On Inquiries, and Towards Wisdom.

According to Diogenes, Hecato divided the virtues into two kinds, those founded on scientific intellectual principles ( i. e. wisdom and justice ), and those with no such basis ( e. g., temperance and the resultant health and vigour ).

The principal object of the ambassadors, however, was to support the accusation which was brought against the deposed king Ariarathes V ; and Diogenes and his coadjutor, Miltiades, succeeded in their plan, and lies and calumnies gained the victory, as there was no one to undertake the defence of Ariarathes.