Protagoras

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490-420BC

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Greek

About the gods, I am not able to know whether they exist or do not exist, nor what they are like in form; for the factors preventing knowledge are many; the obscurity of the subject, and the shortness of human life.

fragment from On the Gods

Man is the measure of all things.

discussed in Plato, Theaetetus

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