If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans believe that the gods are born like themselves, and that the gods wear clothes and have bodies like humans and speak in the same way... but if cows and horses or lions had hands or could draw with the hands and manufacture the things humans can make, then horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, cows like cows, and they would make the gods' bodies resemble those which each kind of animal had itself.

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

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.

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

All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.