Xenophanes

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,_x000D_ While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair._x000D_ “If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.