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.

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.

All men begin their learning with Homer.

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

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.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

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.