“Certainties are arrived at only on foot.”

Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.
Voces (1943)

Original

Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.

Voces (1943)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Certainties are arrived at only on foot." by Antonio Porchia?
Antonio Porchia photo
Antonio Porchia 276
Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

Related quotes

Sufyan al-Thawri photo

“Someone asked: "What is meaning of certainty? " He replied, it is the name of inner voice, and the folk of certainty arrive at the gnosis. And the meaning of certainty is that every affliction be considered sent by Allah.”

Sufyan al-Thawri (716–778) Muslim Scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 29

Fernando Pessoa photo
Will Durant photo
Roger Bacon photo

“If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics…”

Bk. 1, ch. 4. Translated by Robert B. Burke, in: Edward Grant (1974) Source Book in Medieval Science. Harvard University Press. p. 93
Opus Majus, c. 1267

Guy De Maupassant photo

“The only certainty is death.”

Source: Bel-Ami

“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”

Roberto Assagioli (1888–1974) Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974)
Pliny the Elder photo

“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

Jean Tinguely photo

“Static, static, static! Be static! Be static! Movement is static! Movement is static! Movement is static because it is the only immutable thing - the only certainty, the only unchangeable. The only certainty is that movement is static.”

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

Czeslaw Milosz photo

“Wherever he steps, there always
Endures traced in sand
A large-toed footprint
Which clamors to be tried out
By his childish foot arriving
From the virgin forests.”

Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator

"Birth" (1947)
Daylight (1953)

Related topics