55 Quotes by Xenophanes

One day a dog was being thrashed in the street,and behold, Pythagoras, philosopher of spirits,was walking by.His heart was in his mouthfor the poor pup.'Stop! Stop!' he cried.'Don't beat him any more.This is my dear friend's soul.I recognize the voice when I hear him bark.

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

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

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

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.

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.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.