Quotes by Xenophanes

Xenophanes of Colophon was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and social and religious critic. Xenophanes lived a life of travel, having left Ionia at the age of 25 and continuing to travel throughout the Greek world for another 67 years.

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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.

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

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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

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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.

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

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