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Roberto Assagioli 1
Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974) 1888–1974Related quotes
“Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.”
“Certainties are arrived at only on foot.”
Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.
Voces (1943)
“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
Fuller version: This series of instances entangles unforeseeing mortality, so that among these things but one thing is in the least certainthat nothing certain exists, and that nothing is more pitiable, or more presnmptuous, than man! In Latin: Quae singula inprovidam mortalitatem involvunt, solum ut inter ista vel certu sit nihil esse certi nec quicquam miserius homine aut superbius.
Book II, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia
Quoted in: Guy Brett, Hayward Gallery, Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain) (2000) Force fields: phases of the kinetic. p. 250.
Quotes, 1950's, Static static, static !, 1959
“The only certainty life contains is death.”
Source: When Demons Walk
“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”
p. 114 http://books.google.com/books?id=qCDpAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Fame+is+a+vapor+popularity+an+accident+the+only+earthly+certainty+is+oblivion%22&pg=PA114#v=onepage
Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
“In a world of certainty, the welfare state has only a small role.”
Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 4, State Intervention, p. 79
“The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences.”
Remarks by the President on the Iran Nuclear Deal at American University in Washington, D.C. (August 05, 2015) https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/05/remarks-president-iran-nuclear-deal
2015