„Der Mensch ist das Maß aller Dinge. Derjenigen, die sind, so wie sie sind. Derjenigen, die nicht sind, so wie sie nicht sind.“
— Prótagorás
zitiert von Platon in "Theaitetos", 152a
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Protagoras war ein antiker griechischer Philosoph. Er zählt zu den bedeutendsten Sophisten. Seine Schriften sind nicht erhalten.
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„You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.“
— Protagoras
As quoted in Protagoras by Plato
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„As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.“
— Protagoras
Opening lines of Concerning the Gods (DK 80 B4).
Variant translation: "As to the Gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, or if they do, what they are like."
„Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.“
— Protagoras
As quoted in Theaetetus by Plato section 152a
„There are two sides to every question.“
— Protagoras
As quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IX, Sec. 51
