"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue."
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About Antisthenes
Antisthenes was a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates. He is best known as the founder of the Cynic philosophy, which emphasized self-sufficiency and living in accordance with nature. Antisthenes believed that virtue was the only good and that external possessions and social status were irrelevant. He was known for his ascetic lifestyle and his rejection of conventional norms and values.
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