Zitat des Tages über Nichts / Naught:
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
