Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literatureIf cows and horses or lions had hands, or could draw with their hands and make things as men can, horses would have drawn horse-like gods, cows cow-like gods, and each species would have made the gods' bodies just like their own.Xenophanes★ 6.9
Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literatureThe gods did not intimate all things to men straight away, but in time, through seeking, their discoveries improve.Xenophanes★ 2.0
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