“If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with t...” — Xenophanes Quote

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.

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

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

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

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.

The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.