Greek philosopher Xenophanes (sixth century B.C.).    From Wordnik.com.  [ORIGINS OF RELIGION] Reference

St. Clement of Alexandria quotes verses from Xenophanes the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

Xenophanes, the first philosopher to oppose Greek polytheism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

Xenophanes, the slave of Areton, and the wife of Mnesistratus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of The Epidemics] Reference

B30 gives us essentially the same view in Xenophanes 'own words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Xenophanes] Reference

Xenophanes, that it is first, being rooted in the infinite space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

According to the summary in the pseudo-Plutarch Miscellanies, Xenophanes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Xenophanes] Reference

Xenophanes, that the world never had a beginning, is eternal and incorruptible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Sicily or lived there include Parmenides, Empedocles, Pythagoras, and Xenophanes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Review of Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily, by David Randall-MacIver] Reference

Xenophanes and Epicurus utterly refuse any such art of foretelling future contingencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Then the pendulum swung to the other side, from rest to motion, from Xenophanes to Heracleitus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sophist] Reference

Xenophanes, a native of Ionia, who had fled to E'lea, was the founder of one, and Pythagoras, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

Moreover, B18 suggests that Xenophanes is optimistic about the capacities of human intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presocratic Philosophy] Reference

Many testimonia credit Xenophanes with an interest in meteorological and astronomical phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Xenophanes] Reference

Xenophanes said that if horses, oxen, and lions could paint, they would make gods like themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

That meteorological phenomena are not divine is not all that Xenophanes has to say about the gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presocratic Philosophy] Reference

Xenophanes complained in his old age, that, look where he would, all things hastened back to Unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature] Reference

The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes measured their force on this problem of identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference

The case of Xenophanes is most striking; himself an epic poet, he criticized violently the immorality of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [MYTH IN ANTIQUITY] Reference

When a sage like Xenophanes raises his voice, he takes account of the irrationality of the gods and rejects them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Xenophanes 'God acts and thinks in ways quite unlike human action and human thought, but he still acts and thinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN] Reference

Xenophanes, that the sun is eclipsed when it is extinguished; and that a new sun is created and rises in the east.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

In the 1980's Alexander Mourelatos argued that Xenophanes employs an important new pattern of explanation: X is really.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presocratic Philosophy] Reference

In the satirical poetry of Xenophanes, the impact of the new cosmologies upon Olympian religious ideas is made explicit.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN] Reference

Xenophanes indeed, when one told him that he had seen eels living in hot water, answered, We will boil them then in cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

The break with the religious tradition becomes explicit in Xenophanes 'attack on Homer's and Hesiod's picture of the gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Homer, and that of the Eleatics, which in a similar spirit he conceives to be even older than Xenophanes (compare Protag.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sophist] Reference

Cicero informs us that "Xenophanes says that the moon is inhabited, and a country having several towns and mountains in it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

Xenophanes, that there are many suns and many moons, according as the earth is distinguished by climates, circles, and zones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Xenophanes, that the earth, being compacted of fire and air, in its lowest parts hath laid a foundation in an infinite depth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Other famous Greeks mentioned in the book who visited Sicily or lived there include Parmenides, Empedocles, Pythagoras, and Xenophanes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily by David Randall-MacIver (1931)] Reference

It may well be that these stories are not higher than fact nor yet true to fact: they are, very possibly, what Xenophanes says of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetics] Reference

Xenophanes, that all such fiery meteors are nothing else but the conglomeration of the enfired clouds, and the flashing motions of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Xenophanes identified genuine knowledge with the grasping of the sure and certain truth and claimed that “no man has seen” it (21B34).    From Wordnik.com.  [Presocratic Philosophy] Reference

There were the Eleatics in our part of the world, saying that all things are one; whose doctrine begins with Xenophanes, and is even older.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sophist] Reference