Diogenes of Sinope
You have no patience for status, money or politeness for its own sake. You'd live in a barrel to make a point, and you'd make it loudly.
“Stand a little out of my sun.”
What you’d believe
- Live according to natureReduce needs to what nature actually requires; reject wealth, fame, and comfort as false goods.
- Virtue is practiced, not theorizedGoodness is demonstrated through a rigorous, ascetic way of life, not abstract argument.
- CosmopolitanismOne belongs to no single city but to the world; conventional identities are arbitrary.
