Diogenes Quotes
You must try going out into the market place, where the mass of people spend their time
Diogenes, 412 BC-322 BC, Greek Philosopher, Advice to other philosophers to find an audience for their views, Quoted by Diogenes Laertius, Diogenes, 6
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Mencken was a brilliant and funny but pompous snob who had little respect for the average person.
This is a great example of the hubris that affects many very successful politicians and erodes there effectiveness and makes them more dictatorial. They delude themselves into believeing that they are an accurte reflection of the people. In this case he absurdly argued that since he was brought up in a working class family and did not spend all his time with intllectuals, he therefore knew the Irish people’s preferences. If such an upbringing qualified a person to know the Irish wants, then there were millions of such in Ireland who grew up that way. And if they all reflected the Irish will, why was there so much disagreement amongst the Irish as with most other people?
Diogenes (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/ dy-OJ-in-eez; Ancient Greek: Διογένης, romanized: Diogénēs [di.oɡénɛ͜ɛs]), also known as Diogenes the Cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός, Diogénēs ho Kynikós), was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea coast of modern-day Turkey, in 412 or 404 BC and died at Corinth in 323 BC.
