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Xenophanes QUOTES / QUOTATIONS
570 BC
Quotation of Xenophanes
480 BC
Quotation of 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.
Quotation of Xenophanes
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Quotation of Xenophanes
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Quotation of Xenophanes
Men create the gods in their own image.
Quotation of Xenophanes
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Quotation of Xenophanes