- Lived:
- c. 360–270 BCE · Elis, in the western Peloponnese, Greece — with one enormous detour to India
- Tradition:
- Founder of Greek Skepticism (Pyrrhonism)
- The Big Idea:
- On the deepest questions, our senses and opinions can't settle what things really are — so stop asserting, suspend judgment, and tranquility will follow on its own.
- In their words:
- "It is hard to strip away the human." — reportedly his words after a barking dog made him flinch, as told by Diogenes Laërtius
- If you remember one thing:
- Everyone else promised peace of mind as the reward for finding the answers. Pyrrho found peace by genuinely giving up the need for answers — and made not knowing a way of life.