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