Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.

God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind.The whole [of god] sees, the whole perceives, the whole hears. But without effort he sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected.

If horses had Gods, they would look like horses.