I am still looking for a man, not just a featherless biped.
Cynic philosopher
I am still looking for a man, not just a featherless biped.
Cynic philosopher
His retort to Plato's definition of man as a 'featherless biped' when Diogenes brought a plucked chicken to Plato's lecture.
c. 350 BCE
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