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man_is_the_measure_of_all_things

man is the measure of all things

English

Vitruvian Man, a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, sometimes associated with this phrase.

Phrase

man is the measure of all things

  1. (an expression of) the doctrine that all knowledge is subjective, being derived from observations made by humans, and there can be no objective truth

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