Quotes by Protagoras

“As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like”

“There are two sides to every question.”

“When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.”

“No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.”

“The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.”

“You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue cant 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.”

“The art of measurement, by showing us the truth would have brought our soul into the repose of abiding by the truth, and so would have saved our life.”

“Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.”

Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent ones knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of mans life.

Man is the measure of all things.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.