Protagoras of Abdera (l.c. 485-415 BCE) is most famous for his claim that "Of all things the measure is Man, of the things that are, that they are, and of the things that are not, that they are not" (DK 80B1) usually rendered simply as "Man is the Measure of All Things". Along these same lines, he also maintained that, if there were gods - as the Greeks, of course, believed - there was no way of knowing what they were like or what they might want from humanity by way of service and worship.
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