10 ideas
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] |
7506 | God made man in his own image [Anon (Tor)] |
21131 | Democracy is competition for support of the people, guided by self-interest on all sides [Posner] |
1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
16782 | The names of all the types of creature were given forever by Adam [Anon (Tor)] |
3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
4013 | And God saw the light, that it was good [Anon (Tor)] |
408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |
407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |