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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 th… - Xenophanes
" "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.
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About Xenophanes
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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Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος
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Xenophanes of Colophon
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