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is fixed by fate upon all things. If ever a man were to succeed in saying something completely true, he could never be aware of it.

And as for certain truth, no man has seen it, nor will there ever be a man who knows about the gods and about all the things I mention. For if he succeeds to the full in saying what is completely true, he himself is nevertheless unaware of it... and Opinion (seeming) is fixed by fate upon all things.' (From Kathleen Freeman's Ancilla to the Presocratic Philosophers, Xenophanes fragment 34.)

is a projection. The Gods of ethiopians were black with flat noses. Those of the thracians, blond with blue eyes.

Xenophanes, which observed that 'the gods of Ethiopians were inevitably black with flat noses while those of the Thracians were blond with blue eyes.'[9]

 no man has seen, and if ever a man were to say something completely true, he could never be aware of it. As such, opinion (or seeming) is fixed by fate upon all things.

is that which no man has seen, and were he to succeed he could never be aware of it.

is that which no man has seen,and were he to succeed in seeing it, he could never be aware of it.

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