Diogenes Dombey and Son is called Diogenes. Alexander's meeting with Diogenes is portrayed in Valerio Manfredi's "(Alexander Trilogy) "The Ends of the Earth"". William S. Burroughs has been described as "Diogenes with a knife and gun." The many allusions to dogs in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" are references to the school of Cynicism that could be interpreted as suggesting a parallel between the misanthropic hermit, Timon, and Diogenes; but Shakespeare would have had access to Michel de Montaigne's essay, "Of Democritus and Heraclitus", which emphasised their differences: Timon actively wishes men ill and shuns them as dangerous, whereas Diogenes esteems them
Diogenes Verlag included religious texts such as "Die Bergpredigt. Aktuelle Texte aus dem Neuen Testament", poetry ("Die schönsten Gedichte von Bertolt Brecht"), philosophy such as Albert Camus' "Weder Opfer noch Henker. Über eine neue Weltordnung", letters such as Georges Simenon's "Brief an meine Mutter" and Albert Einstein/Sigmund Freud's "Warum Krieg?", and Eastern wisdom including "Worte großer Meister" and Krishnamurti's "Meditation". Authors published by Diogenes include: Joan Aiken, Margery Allingham, Eric Ambler, Alfred Andersch, Jakob Arjouni, Honoré de Balzac, Ray Bradbury, , Gwendoline Butler, Anton Chekhov, Raymond Chandler, Paulo Coelho, Andrea De Carlo, Charles De Coster, Luciano De Crescenzo, Charles Dickens, Philippe Djian,