Xenophanes
Proper noun
Meaning
A Greek given name.
The pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon; by extension or reference, any profound or transformative religious thinker.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.
Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing."
Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
This is a sworn treaty made between us, Hannibal ... and Xenophanes the Athenian ... in the presence of all the gods who possess Macedonia and the rest of Greece.
Atheists are confounded with Pantheists, such as Xenophanes among the ancients, or Spinoza and Schelling among the moderns, who, instead of denying God, absorb everything into him.
A fragment from Xenophanes (6th century BC) shows the transition from Chaos to Apeiron: "The upper limit of earth borders on air.