The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. “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.
This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity - Xenophanes
This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity
- Xenophanes
It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom. - Xenophanes
It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans believe that the gods are b… - Xenophanes
There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans believe that the gods are b…
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. - Xenophanes
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought. - Xenophanes
But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.
Men always makes gods in their own image. - Xenophanes
Men always makes gods in their own image.
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man. - Xenophanes
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected. - Xenophanes
The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected.
Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances - Xenophanes
Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances
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