"God is one, greatest of gods and men,……" — Xenophanes

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in… - Xenophanes

"God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought."

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31 Quotes by Xenophanes

Xenophanes has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do,…
Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or…
The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in…
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would…
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.
In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in…
If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would…
The Gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time through seeking…
This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity
Men always makes gods in their own image.
For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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