Associations to the word «Diogenes»

Wiktionary

DIOGENES, proper noun. An Ancient Greek male given name, notably borne by Diogenes of Sinope, an Ancient Greek philosopher (c.412-c.323 BC), the most famous of Cynic philosophers.

Dictionary definition

DIOGENES, noun. An ancient Greek philosopher and Cynic who rejected social conventions (circa 400-325 BC).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne