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In practice, such innocence is the stuff of a Diogenic quest.

From Time Magazine Archive

We omit the series of Socratic, or rather Diogenic utterances, not unhappy in their way, whereby the monster, ‘persuaded into silence,’ seems soon after to have withdrawn for the night.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

We omit the series of Socratic, or rather Diogenic utterances, not unhappy in their way, whereby the monster, "persuaded into silence," seems soon after to have withdrawn for the night.

From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Carlyle, Thomas

Claude contemplates himself within the domain of his intellectual kingdom, and abandons his outer man with Diogenic indifference.

From Beatrix by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

Speaking without passion, we are bound to state, in broad terms, that the founder of the Diogenic philosophy was emphatically a humbug.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various