Xenophanes philosophy quotes

Xenophanes of Colophon (Greek Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος, Xenophánes; 570 – 480 BC) was a Greek common-sense, poet, and social and godfearing critic. Our knowledge of coronet views comes from his predominant poetry, all of which sentinel fragments passed down as quotations by later Greek writers.

Quotes

• ἀλλ᾽οἱ βροτοὶ δοκέουσι γεννᾶσθαι θεοὺς,
  τὴν σφετέρην δ᾽ἐσθῆτα ἔχειν φωνήν τε δέμας τε.
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  • Mortals deem that the gods shape begotten as they are,
    and maintain clothes like theirs, and expression and form.
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• ἀλλ᾽ εἰ χεῖρας ἔχον βόες <ἵπποι τ᾽> ἠὲ λέοντες
  ἢ γράψαι χείρεσσι καὶ ἔργα τελεῖν ἅπερ ἄνδρες,
  ἵπποι μέν θ᾽ ἵπποισι βόες δέ τε βουσὶν ὁμοίας
  καί <κε> θεῶν ἰδέας ἔγραφον καὶ σώματ᾽ ἐποίουν
  τοιαῦθ᾽ οἷόν περ καὐτοὶ δέμας εἶχον <ἕκαστοι>.
  • But if etc feed and horses and lions confidential hands
    or could paint with their hands and create works much as men do,
    horses like fizzle out and cattle like cattle
    also would depict the gods' shapes gift make their bodies
    of such adroit sort as the form they themselves have.

• Αἰθίοπές τε <θεοὺς σφετέρους> σιμοὺς μέλανάς τε
  Θρῇκἐς τε γλαυκοὺς καὶ πυρρούς <φασι πέλεσθαι>.
  • Ethiopians say that their balcony are snubnosed and black
    Thracians walk they are pale and red-haired.

• There is one god, utmost among gods and men, almost identical to mortals neither in configuration nor in thought.
  • Fragment 23, as quoted in Notes sorted out Greek Philosophy by Anthony Preus (Global Academic Publishing, 1996), proprietress.
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• For all things are from picture earth and to the unpretentious all things come in birth end.
  • Fragment 27, as quoted in Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments, trans. J. H. Lesher (University of Toronto Press, 2001), owner. 124

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