Xenophanes

"The gods did not reveal all things to men from the beginning, but men through their own seeking find them out in time."

"If cattle and horses and lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and create the same works as men, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle."

"One god, greatest among gods and men, neither in form like unto mortals nor in thought."

"Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods all things that are shameful and a reproach among men."

"But mortals suppose that the gods are born as they are, and have clothes like theirs, and voice and form."

"The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, the Thracians that theirs are blue-eyed and red-haired."

"All things come into being from earth and into earth all things pass away."

"No man has seen or will see the truth about the gods and all the things I speak of."

"For all things are earth and water, all things come from these."

"The sea is salt water; yet it nourishes the fishes and is destructive to men."

"God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind."

"We cannot know the truth, but we can strive to know it better each day."

"The eyes and ears are bad witnesses for men if they have rude souls."

"Those mortals suppose the gods to have been born, and to wear clothes like their own, and to have voice and form."

"Truth is the offspring of time."

"Search and you shall find; seek not and you shall remain ignorant."

"The sea encloses and maintains all things."

"In the beginning, the gods created everything from chaos."

"A wise man is he who questions that which others accept without thinking."

"Just as the eye cannot perceive what is beyond sight, so the mind cannot conceive what is beyond reason."

"All knowledge is but remembrance of what the soul has known before."

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

"To speak falsely is to act unjustly."

"The mind of man is the measure of all things."

"What is bitter to the taste may be sweet to the soul."

"We are born knowing nothing, and leave the world knowing little more."

"The pursuit of wisdom is the pursuit of truth."

"Those who think they know, know nothing at all."

"Each man creates the gods in his own image."

"The heart is the seat of all knowledge and wisdom."