Xenophanes

And yet those natural philosophers, very rarely, when they are stuck at some point, cry out, as if driven by inspiration — Empedocles indeed so that he sometimes seems to me to rave — that all things are hidden, that we perceive nothing, discern nothing, can find out at all nothing of what kind a thing is;

Parmenides and Xenophanes, in verses less good — though still in verses — rebuke the arrogance of those, as if in anger, who, when nothing can be known, dare to say that they know.

Xenophanes, a little earlier even, said that all things were one, and that this was not changeable, and that this was god, never born and everlasting, of a spherical figure.

and as each people paint their forms like to themselves—as Xenophanes says, "the Ethiopians black and snub-nosed, the Thracians red-haired and grey-eyed"—so too they fashion the souls of their gods like to their own.

Concerning Xenophanes, who began the Eleatic philosophy, it has been said.

After the men already mentioned, then, there arose three successions of philosophy named from the places where they spent their time:

Then Xenophanes, who would have all that exists, with mind added to it and being infinite, to be god, will be censured concerning the mind itself like the rest, and more vehemently concerning the infinite, in which there can be nothing either perceiving or connected.

And the Eleatic sect in our region, beginning with Xenophanes and even earlier, have their story that all things, as they are called, are really one.

Anaxagoras, with Xenophanes, a weariness;