"But if cattle and horses or lions had……" — Xenophanes
"But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves."
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31 Quotes by Xenophanes
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If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do,…
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Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or…
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
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But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.
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In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in…
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If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would…
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The Gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time through seeking…
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This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity
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Men always makes gods in their own image.
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For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.
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