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Xenophanes Quotes

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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us  (Xenophanes Quotes) 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.  (Xenophanes Quotes) Men create the gods in their own image  (Xenophanes Quotes) If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands  (Xenophanes Quotes) Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know  (Xenophanes Quotes) For we are all sprung from earth and water  (Xenophanes Quotes) All things that come into being and grow are earth and water  (Xenophanes Quotes) The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected  (Xenophanes Quotes) God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought  (Xenophanes Quotes) It isn’t right to judge strength as better than good wisdom  (Xenophanes Quotes) For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth  (Xenophanes Quotes) Men always makes gods in their own image  (Xenophanes Quotes) It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man  (Xenophanes Quotes) Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better  (Xenophanes Quotes) Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances  (Xenophanes Quotes) This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity  (Xenophanes Quotes) 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  (Xenophanes Quotes) If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image  (Xenophanes Quotes) The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion  (Xenophanes Quotes) Mortals deem that the gods are begotten as they are, and have clothes like theirs, and voice and form  (Xenophanes Quotes) 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  (Xenophanes Quotes) 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  (Xenophanes Quotes)