10 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] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
5990 | Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk] |
1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
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] |