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Xenophanes Quotation

Xenophanes (570-475 B.C.) Eleatic School of Philosophy

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If horses or oxen or lions had hands and could produce works of art, they too would represent the gods after their own fashion. (fr. 15)

"Men make gods in their own image; those of the Ethiopians are black and snub-nosed, those of the Thracians have blue eyes and red hair (fr 16)."
Source: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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