Xenophanes

Xenophanes of Colophon (Greek Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος, Xenophánes; 570 – 480 BC) was a Greek philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Our knowledge of his views comes from his surviving poetry, all of which are fragments passed down as quotations by later Greek writers.

Quotes
τὴν σφετέρην δ᾽ἐσθῆτα ἔχειν φωνήν τε δέμας τε. and have clothes like theirs, and voice and form.
 * ἀλλ᾽οἱ βροτοὶ δοκέουσι γεννᾶσθαι θεοὺς,
 * Mortals deem that the gods are begotten as they are,
 * Diels-Kranz (D-K), fragment 14

ἢ γράψαι χείρεσσι καὶ ἔργα τελεῖν ἅπερ ἄνδρες, ἵπποι μέν θ᾽ ἵπποισι βόες δέ τε βουσὶν ὁμοίας καί <κε> θεῶν ἰδέας ἔγραφον καὶ σώματ᾽ ἐποίουν τοιαῦθ᾽ οἷόν περ καὐτοὶ δέμας εἶχον <ἕκαστοι>. or could paint with their hands and create works such as men do, horses like horses and cattle like cattle also would depict the gods' shapes and make their bodies of such a sort as the form they themselves have.
 * ἀλλ᾽ εἰ χεῖρας ἔχον βόες <ἵπποι τ᾽> ἠὲ λέοντες
 * But if cattle and horses and lions had hands
 * Fragment 15 (D-K)

Θρῇκἐς τε γλαυκοὺς καὶ πυρρούς <φασι πέλεσθαι>. Thracians that they are pale and red-haired.
 * Αἰθίοπές τε <θεοὺς σφετέρους> σιμοὺς μέλανάς τε
 * Ethiopians say that their gods are snubnosed and black
 * Fragment 16 (D-K)


 * There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought.
 * Fragment 23, as quoted in Notes on Greek Philosophy by Anthony Preus (Global Academic Publishing, 1996), p. 10


 * For all things are from the earth and to the earth all things come in the end.
 * Fragment 27, as quoted in Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments, trans. J. H. Lesher (University of Toronto Press, 2001), p. 124