…have numerical symbols which can be reinterpreted in terms of letters and back and forth. These things become an interesting problem. Diogenes describes the logos, or the great figure, blazing in light with every letter of the Greek alphabet located on some…

…more in himself demand less. There are two ways of satisfying need. One is to have more, the other is to need less. Diogenes was the master of this equation. Today we have the right, perhaps more than at any other time in history, to make demands…

…else that seems to me to be infinitely more important. And that is that man is no longer simply a biped without feathers, as Diogenes likened him. Man is a thinking creature. He should not be brought up by a trainer like a dog. He should not be taught…

…who were uneducated, mitigatedly out of line but the parent took the children to the teacher Socrates was such a teacher Diogenes Plato Aristotle they were all teachers Socrates all of these teachers had small groups of people that they tutored the price…

…will all be hypnotized by them and go out to be a hermit somewhere. Nor is it necessary for us to follow the example of Diogenes, who suddenly deciding that his water cup was a sort of luxury, threw it away and drank out of the hollow of his hand…

…them in our own approach giving them our own peculiar abilities and using them as symbols of our own attitudes Diogenes, a famous early 16th century physiognomist, used animal faces to indicate human temperaments. He's declared that all human beings, to…

…material interests alive so out of all of this we can start right on back and decide more or less as Socrates did and also Diogenes that we just got off on the wrong foot We got off somewhere when the caveman began to throw rocks at each other. Then…

…within ourselves it has no enemies it has lost the power to have enemies and do that type of thing there's a story about Diogenes who liked to live in a tub in the Athenian forum and used to speak to his associates while standing near a wall that…

…wall that led up to another level one day a soldier listening to him disagreed with him so leaned over the wall and spat at him Diogenes looked up and then he turned to his friend and he said you know I think I should be angry at that man but I've…

…Therefore the deity. Though ever present. Remains the most distant. Remains the most completely. Separate from all things. Plotinus following Diogenes of Cenopus. Also explains to us. That this alone. This state of alone. Is possible only. that which is…

…God. or is not good in its final sense. There's a little fable about it, which is rather trite, but still has a bearing. Diogenes said that the man who has least, as far as these worldly things are concerned, is most like God, inasmuch as God, as far…

…we experience a strange growth a growth of sacrifice which makes us strong a growth of giving which makes us like God The Diogenes pointed out that the reason that men are men is because they must receive and gods are gods because they always give. Out…

…the body. So the Jain begins by considering the probability of getting down to essentials. In this sense, he was almost like Diogenes, who had the same idea among the Greeks. One of the greatest problems we have is possession, and the other greatest…

…to him master you're all alone in this little house and you're very old now what will happen if you die who will bury you. And Diogenes said with a smile, the man who wants this house will bury me. There was a lot of wit in those days and much of…

…ever been known. And the most delightful part has always been that they were so definitely inspired by philosophical understanding. Diogenes and Plato had a little feud on because Diogenes insisted on thinking that Plato considered himself to be a superior…

…has always been that they were so definitely inspired by philosophical understanding. Diogenes and Plato had a little feud on because Diogenes insisted on thinking that Plato considered himself to be a superior person and be a little snobbish and so on.…

…himself to be a superior person and be a little snobbish and so on. And, of course, that was worse than heresy as far as Diogenes was concerned. And one day Plato got himself a new cloak. Where it came from and how he got it, we don't know. But it…

…it, we don't know. But it was a nice looking cloak. And it was long enough so that the tail of it brushed on the ground. Diogenes walked along behind him for a while. And when he got to a muddy spot, he jumped up and down on the tail of Plato's…

…he can't face it so out of this facing of reality comes a simplification of life the number of the Greek philosophers including Diogenes and Socrates were also the exponents of the simple life that the way to escape from problems is to have no ulterior…