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Xenophanes
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“ἀλλ᾽οἱ βροτοὶ δοκέουσι γεννᾶσθαι θεοὺς, τὴν σφετέρην δ᾽ἐσθῆτα ἔχειν φωνήν τε δέμας τε.”
Xenophanes (570–478 BC) said by 478 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“ἀλλ᾽ εἰ χεῖρας ἔχον βόες ἠὲ λέοντες ἢ γράψαι χείρεσσι καὶ ἔργα τελεῖν ἅπερ ἄνδρες, ἵπποι μέν θ᾽ ἵπποισι βόες δέ τε βουσὶν ὁμοίας καί θεῶν ἰδέας ἔγραφον καὶ σώματ᾽ ἐποίουν τοιαῦθ᾽ οἷόν περ καὐτοὶ δέμας εἶχον .”
Xenophanes (570–478 BC) said by 478 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Αἰθίοπές τε σιμοὺς μέλανάς τε Θρῇκἐς τε γλαυκοὺς καὶ πυρρούς .”
Xenophanes (570–478 BC) said by 478 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought.”
Xenophanes (570–478 BC) said by 478 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment 23, as quoted in Notes on Greek Philosophy by Anthony Preus (Global Academic Publishing, 1996), p. 10
“For all things are from the earth and to the earth all things come in the end.”
Xenophanes (570–478 BC) said by 478 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment 27, as quoted in Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments, trans. J. H. Lesher (University of Toronto Press, 2001), p. 124