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Xenophanes [-570--480] Greek
Rank: 101
Philosopher


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. 

God, Men, Strength, Wisdom, Chance, Good, Learning, Truth



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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom. Good, Strength, Wisdom
101
Men create the gods in their own image. Men
102
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. Chance, Truth
103
There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind. God, Men
104
But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
105
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
106
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.
107
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
108
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. God
109
Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom. Strength, Wisdom
110
All men begin their learning with Homer. Learning
111

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