The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.

...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.

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.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.