Watching a boy drink from his hands, Diogenes threw away his wooden bowl. Seeing another boy use broken bread to scoop lentils, he discarded his spoon. Poverty taught by children.
Diogenes looked at this and scoffed. He believed that philosophers had become mere word-spinners, debating the definition of "goodness" while living lives of luxury and hypocrisy. He decided to practice philosophy rather than preach it. He adopted a life of radical poverty, not because he was forced to, but because he chose to. He wanted to prove that happiness was independent of material circumstance. Diogenes The Dog
Cynicism was less a theoretical system and more an existential practice . Diogenes believed philosophy should be lived, not taught. Watching a boy drink from his hands, Diogenes
The imagery of Diogenes is inseparable from his props: his tub (often misidentified as a barrel) and his lamp. Diogenes looked at this and scoffed
Yes, by choice. He lived in a pithos (large ceramic storage jar) near the Temple of Cybele in Corinth.