Protagoras Quotes

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

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants?

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

Your thoughts of God are too human

Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.