WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Xenophanes – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Xenophanes -- In Fragmente der Vorsokratiker 21B15, by Diels-Kranz https://wist.info/xenophanes/5092/ https://wist.info/xenophanes/5092/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:18:44 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5092 If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.


Xenophanes (c. 570–478 BC) Greek philosopher, poet.
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