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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
— Xenophanes
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Xenophanes
philosopher, poet, epigrammatist, elegist, writer, theologian
1999 – 2007
Xenophanes of Colophon was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of Homer. He was born in Ionia and travelled throughout the Greek-speaking world in early classical antiquity.
All Quotes by Xenophanes
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There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought.
— Xenophanes
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For all things are from the earth and to the earth all things come in the end.
— Xenophanes
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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.
— Xenophanes