“Men always makes gods in their own image.”

“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 godsLike horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shapeBodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.”

“The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,All things to us, but in the course of timeThrough seeking we may learn and know things better.But as for certain truth, no man has known it,Nor shall he know it,neither of the godsNor yet of all the things of which I speak.For even if by chance he were to utterThe final truth, he would himself not know it:For all is but a woven web of guesses”

“For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.”

“One must be a sage to recognize a sage.”

“No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.”

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.”