Diogenes of Sinope#Diogenes
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#Diogenes
Diogenes of Sinope · c. 412–323 BCE
In the books · 1 chapter
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“He wrote almost nothing and built no system; instead he lived his philosophy in the street, in a ceramic jar, with a lamp lit at noon — and the performance was the argument.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Almost everything you think you need — money, status, comfort, approval, even shame — is a social invention, and a human being who trains themselves to need almost nothing is freer than a king.”
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