Xenophanes Quotes About Atheism

• 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

  Horse, Hands, Religion

• Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.

  Xenophanes

  Fashion, Horse, Humility

• 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

  Men, Perfect, Atheism

• If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.

  Xenophanes

  Horse, Oxen, Atheism

• The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.

  Xenophanes

  Eye, Light, Hair

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