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" No. 23
thought like unto mortals.
-- Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.475 BCE) "Fragments" No. 23
Related:
- Even so, oxen, lions and horses, if they had hands wherewith to grave
images,
would fashion gods after their own shapes and give... - Men create the gods in their own
image. --... - Nothing is impossible to industry.
-- Periander (fl.
c. B.C.... - Friendship is neither transitive nor inherited.
--
Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming... - The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not,
or, being willing to do so cannot; or they neither... - Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenophanes,... - Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.
John Webster (c. 1580-1625) -- The White Devil, Act... - It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or
no God.
It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. -- Thomas... - That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are
such beings as daemons.
Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato,...
