Cf. [Protagoras in Plato Cratylus vi.] ράνṯων χρημάṯων μέṯρον ɛἶναί ἄνθρωρον, man is the measure of all things.
Man is the measure of all thynges.
[1547 W. Baldwin Morall Phylosophie iii. xvi. O6V]
As of all things, man is said the measure, So your full merits measure forth a man.
[1631 G. Chapman Warres of Pompey & Caesar ii. E2]
‘Man the measure of all things.’ A good adage.
[1948 ‘H. Beston’ Northern Farm xii.]
The belief that man was the measure of all things‥led the Greeks into‥new disciplines.
[1980 Times Greece Supplement 15 Dec. p. iv.]
Related to: human nature
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