There is one God, supreme among gods and men, who is like m… - Xenophanes

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There is one God, supreme among gods and men,
who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

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Xenophanes of Colophon (Greek Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος, Xenophánes; 570 – 480 BC) was a Greek philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Our knowledge of his views comes from his surviving poetry, all of which are fragments passed down as quotations by later Greek writers.

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Native Name: Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος

Alternative Names: Xenophanes of Colophon

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But if horses or cattle or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the works 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 had themselves.

Ethiopians say that their gods are snubnosed and black
Thracians that they are pale and red-haired.

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

There is one God, supreme among gods and men, who is like mortals in neither body nor mind. - Xenophanes

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