Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Sin esa tonta vanidad que es el mostrarnos y que es de todos y de todo, no veríamos nada y no existiría nada. [[]]
Voces (1943)
"While the Sign Sleeps," p. 17
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Sign and Nothing”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Sin esa tonta vanidad que es el mostrarnos y que es de todos y de todo, no veríamos nada y no existiría nada. [[]]
Voces (1943)
“Stability is not everything, but without stability, everything is nothing.”
Karl Schiller (1911–1994) German scientist and politician
[Hanke, Steve H., The Great Destabilizer, https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/great-destabilizer, Cato Institute, 30 August 2018, 2014]
“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
“Nothing ends without breaking, because everything is endless.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Nada termina sin romperse, porque todo es sin fin.
Voces (1943)
James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
It's a Man's Man's Man's World, written with Betty Jean Newsome, from It's a Man's Man's Man's World (1966)
Song lyrics
“One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
12 August 1846
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet
“Without the help of the people our exertions would be as nothing.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) Irish politician
Cork address (1885)
“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”
Giacomo Leopardi book Zibaldone
Source: Zibaldone (2013) trans. Kathleen Baldwin et al., [527] ISBN 978-0374296827
“Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean
Context: Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing. On this account, the superior man regards the attainment of sincerity as the most excellent thing.