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Roberto Assagioli1
Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974) 1888–1974Related quotes
“Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.”
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
“Certainties are arrived at only on foot.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.
Voces (1943)
“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
Pliny the Elder book Natural History
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
Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) Swiss painter and sculptor
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.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: When Demons Walk
“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
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 <br class="br">Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
“In a world of certainty, the welfare state has only a small role.”
Nicholas Barr (1943) British economist
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.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
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 <br class="br">2015