“The freedom of the individual finds its high point in Xenophanes and in [his] almost boundless withdrawal from all conventionality.” – Nietzsche: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks §10
“His temperament was … restless, curious, many-sided, critical as well as biting, he would rightly be considered … the man who would trace new paths in crucial theological, philosophical, and gnoseological areas.” – Vamvacas: The Founders of Western Thought p. 85
“There is nothing in the whole of the literature of philosophy that is so critical, so self-critical, so correct and so true as … Xenophanes.” – Popper: The World of Parmenides p. 46 ...
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