| In this respect he resembled Xenophanes more than Parmenides. |
| What Xenophanes says may at once be taken as the conviction of a Mystic. |
| Xenophanes seems to have believed that the earth was an infinite plane rather than a finite disk. |
| The starting-point of philosophy for Xenophanes was found in theology. |
| Pursuing a theme of archaic poetry, Xenophanes is the first to reflect systematically on the distinction between human opinion or guesswork and certain knowledge. |
| In the history of Greek thought the collision came in the days of Xenophanes. |
