Diogenes Quotes

Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same."

Diogenes

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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

Caitlin Doughty
- People
- World
- Home
Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

Caitlin Doughty
- Family
- Death
- Beautiful
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

W. H. Auden
- Death
- Man
- Words
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Children
- Death
- Child
I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

Malala Yousafzai
- Want
- Death
- Education
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

Barbara Kruger
- People
- Think
- Me