Cynic Provocateur
Diogenes
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The best-known Cynic, who lived in a large storage jar in Athens and used shocking public acts to mock convention and praise a simple life.
Key work: Known through Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
“I am a citizen of the world.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Live by nature, not by applause.
He called himself a citizen of the world, not of one city.
Custom is a costume. Take it off and look.
Read more: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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