9 ideas
20752 | For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett] |
411 | If we succeed in speaking the truth, we cannot know we have done it [Xenophanes] |
412 | If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter [Xenophanes] |
20756 | Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett] |
1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
1558 | Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus] |
407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |
408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |