Quotes from Xenophanes

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

Men always makes gods in their own image.

But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

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.

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

Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods everything that is a shame and a reproach among men.

One god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor even in thought.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.

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.

Men create the gods in their own image.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

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.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

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

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.