What is "cynics"

Usage examples of "cynics".

Most of the Optimen and Servant Uppers tended to discount the Folk rumors that Cyborgs did exist, but Potter had never joined the cynics and scoffers.

And even the cynics sitting in the corners were gratified by the outcome.

The usual cynics have implied that the czar/task force idea is nothing but a naked grab for publicity, but I don't buy it.

What kind of men are we—fools, cynics, ghouls—or is it that our civilization is so steeped in reason that we can contemplate a murderer sympathetically?

Again, as each person who attaches himself to any of these sects may adopt the mode of life either of the Cynics or of the other philosophers, this distinction will double the number, and so make ninety-six sects.

The distinction, too, which is founded on the dress and manners of the Cynics, does not touch the question of the chief good, but only the question whether he who pursues that good which seems to himself true should live as do the Cynics.

There were, in fact, men who, though they pursued different things as the supreme good, some choosing pleasure, others virtue, yet adopted that mode of life which gave the Cynics their name.

Thus, whatever it is which distinguishes the Cynics from other philosophers, this has no bearing on the choice and pursuit of that good which constitutes happiness.

And therefore, as Marcus Varro multiplied the sects to the number of 288 (or whatever larger number he chose) by introducing these four differences derived from the social life, the New Academy, the Cynics, and the threefold form of life, so, by removing these differences as having no bearing on the supreme good, and as therefore not constituting what can properly be called sects, he returns to those twelve schools which concern themselves with inquiring what that good is which makes man happy, and he shows that one of these is true, the rest false.

Most of the Optimen and Servant Uppers tended to discount the Folk rumors that Cyborgs did exist, but Potter had never joined the cynics and scoffers.

The Stoics were indeed a reformed branch of the Cynics, and thence, perhaps, spoke of them somewhat more favourably than they might otherwise have done.

The Cynics are said to have derived their name from Cynosarges, a gymnasium without the walls of Athens, where Antisthenes taught, and which was so called from the accident of a white dog stealing part of a victim which Diomus was sacrificing to Hercules.

In this Cynosarges was a celebrated temple of Hercules, which, very possibly, gave the Cynics the original hint of comparing themselves to that hero, which they so much affected.