Xenophanes Quotes - Page 2

• All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.

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  Ciencia, Agua, Tierra

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• If horses had Gods, they would look like horses.

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  Horse, Looks, Ifs

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

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  Science, Discovery, Long

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• For we are all sprung from earth and water

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  Ciencia, Agua, Tierra

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

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  Horse, Oxen, Atheism

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• ...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.

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  Wisdom, Horse, Athlete

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

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  Eye, Light, Hair

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• If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...

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  Horse, Hands, Lions

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