8 ideas
411 | If we succeed in speaking the truth, we cannot know we have done it [Xenophanes] |
412 | If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter [Xenophanes] |
20948 | Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie] |
1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
16707 | Cold and hot are the swiftness and slowness of corpuscular motion [Beeckman] |
3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |
408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |