"Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed;……" — Xenophanes
"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."
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Xenophanes
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31 Quotes by Xenophanes
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Men always makes gods in their own image.
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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