Xenophanes

"Mortals dream of immortal gods, revealing their own deepest longings."

"One universal god exists beyond all human conceptions."

"The sea sustains all mortal life and holds all mortal secrets."

"What tradition calls sacred is often merely ancient custom."

"Learning requires unlearning what we falsely believe we know."

"The divine, if it exists, is utterly unlike our earthly forms."

"All things that exist began as earth and water."

"Reason, not revelation, is the path to understanding."

"Each nation creates gods who resemble their own people."

"The pursuit of truth requires the courage to abandon falsehood."

"What mortals call eternal is merely what outlasts their memory."

"The invisible and the divine are one and the same."

"Nature speaks to those who listen without preconception."

"All human beliefs reflect human nature, not divine nature."

"The sea gives birth to all clouds and all winds."

"Custom passes for truth in the minds of the unthinking."

"To question the gods is to begin to understand them rightly."

"The greatest wisdom lies in recognizing the limits of knowledge."

"All religions contain fragments of truth mixed with human error."

"What we inherit as belief we must examine as hypothesis."

"The forms of gods multiply because mortals project themselves upon the infinite."

"Understanding requires stripping away the veils of tradition."

"The divine cannot be confined to any single form or doctrine."

"All things originate from moisture and earth."

"The critical mind is the closest approach to divinity."

"What one nation worships, another nation mocks."

"The path of inquiry is longer and more difficult than the path of faith."

"Each generation recreates the gods in its own image."

"Nature reveals her laws to those who observe without bias."

"The sea is the womb from which all moisture and wind arise."