“It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.”
“Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.”
“The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape
bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.”
“If an ox could paint a picture, his god would look like an ox.”
“Men create the gods in their own image.”
“The Gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time through seeking we may learn & know things better. But as for certain truth no man knows it, nor shall he know it, neither of the Gods nor yet of all things that I speak. For even if by chance he were to utter The Final Truth, he would himself not know it: for all is but a woven web of guesses.”
“No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.”
“Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances.”
“If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.”
“God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.”
“For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.”
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