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Xenophanes

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570-478BC

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Greek
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God

Mortals fancy that gods are born, and wear clothes, and have voice and form like themselves.  Yet if oxen and lions had hands, and could paint and fashion images as men do, they would make the pictures and images of their gods in their own likeness; horses would make them like horses, oxen like oxen ….

fragments quoted by Sextus Empiricus in Against the Mathematicians and Clement of Alexandria in Miscellanies

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