Philosopher Diogenes Quotes

#1. When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: 'Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.' It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.

Henry Hazlitt

#2. Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.

Diogenes Of Sinope

#3. As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.

Diogenes Laertius

#4. Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Diogenes Of Sinope

#5. If you've had the time to think about it, then you have time to pursue it.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#6. Was after all a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only by a vigorous jerk.

Henry James

#7. Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Paul Tillich

#8. Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.

Ray Bradbury

#9. Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Leo Buscaglia