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Cynicism (philosophy)

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Ancient school of philosophy

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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach what is called honesty; and the higher man must open his ears to all the coarser or finer cynicism, and congratulate himself when the clown becomes shameless right before him, or the scientific satyr speaks out.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
States what Cynicism is; names Cynicism twice.
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And he, willing to instruct a man so zealous in the pursuit of knowledge, at once took from his wallet a book of Epictetus the Stoic,[334] in which doctrines were advanced which precisely harmonized with those of Zeno and Chrysippus, the founders of the Stoical school.
of Hippo Augustine, The City of God, Volume I
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Close to the modern man's pride there stands his irony about himself, his consciousness that he must live in a historical, or twilit, atmosphere, the fear that he can retain none of his youthful hopes and powers. Here and there one goes further into cynicism, and justifies the course of history, nay, the whole evolution of the world, as simply leading up to the modern man, according to the cynical canon:--"what you…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season, Part II
Names Cynicism several times.
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