“There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.”

“Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

“Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.”

Charles Stross (1964) British science fiction writer and blogger

“if there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“What the common man calls Evil, he once told me, is nothing more than the fear of one’s own potential.”

Michael Swanwick book Jack Faust

“Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process…”

Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) German psychiatrist and philosopher

“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”

Hermann Hesse book Demian

“There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.”

Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) French philosopher

“Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera