Even so, oxen, lions and horses, if they had hands wherewith to grave
images, would fashion gods after their own shapes and give them bodies
like their own.
-- Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.475 BCE) "Fragments" No. 15
images, would fashion gods after their own shapes and give them bodies
like their own.
-- Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.475 BCE) "Fragments" No. 15
Related:
- There is one god, greatest among gods and men, neither in shape nor in
thought like unto mortals.
Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.475 BCE) "Fragments"... - Men create the gods in their own
image. --... - Women are like elephants to me:
I like to look at them,
but I wouldn't want to own one. -- W. C.... - Questioning an undertaker: Can a person furnish his own casket?
Would a large radio cabinet be acceptable for burial... - COME FROM n.
A semi-mythical language construct dual to the
`go to';
COME FROM <label> would cause the referenced... - Nothing is impossible to industry.
-- Periander (fl.
c. B.C.... - I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother.
W. C.... - Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenophanes,... - Most of what I really need to know about how to live,
and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten...
