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.
About Xenophanes
Xenophanes of Colophon was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of Homer from Ionia who travelled throughout the Greek-speaking world in early Classical Antiquity.
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But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher (c.570-c.478 BC)
Men create the gods in their own image.
Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher (c.570-c.478 BC)
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher (c.570-c.478 BC)
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher (c.570-c.478 BC)
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.
Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher (c.570-c.478 BC)