[burgerbrain]

I think of philosophy as the point where people throw their hands into the air in despair and say "Fuck it, I can't break this down any further, figure it out yourself", at which point the famous philosophers have joyfully begun down that ill defined path without an end.

  When Plato gave Socrates' definition of man as "featherless
  bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes
  plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying,
  "Behold! I've brought you a man."

I think Diogenes really may have actually "got it".

[forensic]

No one really gets it, and that's why Socrates was the smartest man in Greece. He knew that he didn't know anything.

Cynics like Diogenes are just as dogmatic as anyone, but the truth they are dogmatic about is that there is no truth. It's still a conviction. Be cynical about cynicism and Diogenes looks just as dumb as Socrates, or anyone for that matter.

We all look dumb when we answer questions. This is why Socrates preferred to be the asker.