In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.
XenophanesIf oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.
XenophanesThe sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.
Xenophanes