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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.


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OVID God made things from nothing, we are made by God, therefore, we are nothing.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not a...
LAO TZU If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not a...
MAHATMA GANDHI And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all thin...
ANAXAGORAS Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no v...
ISAAC NEWTON We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter," atoms formed billions of yea...
FRANK CLOSE Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds,...
ERNST MACH Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some peo...
BRAM STOKER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodim...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falseh...
ROBERT SOUTHEY All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and fals...
ROBERT SOUTHEY All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falseh...
ROBERT SOUTH 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest percha...
ORIGEN I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
BELA BARTOK I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing
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POPE PIUS XII The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I am capable of doing things, but I am not what I do. I am the being who does those things. Therefor...
TERENCE T. GORSKI We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of in...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's la...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there ...
HENRY FORD The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own an...
KAREN KINGSTON With ourselves we can do nothing,but with the help of our subconscious being we can do all things.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, ...
BLAISE PASCAL An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all thing...
THOMAS TRAHERNE But, O thou tyrant, Do not repent these things, for they are heavier Than all thy woes can sti...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you ...
KALU RINPOCHE Even when you're down, there is still hope. No matter how bad things get and no matter how small a h...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
MARCUS AURELIUS I know I'm behind schedule (for the start of the season), but there is nothing I can do about that. ...
BEN SHEETS A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they ar...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we sha...
ADOLPH MONOD The solution which I am urging is to eradicate the fatal disconnection of subjects which kills the v...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
ARTHUR BALFOUR Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all
ARTHUR BALFOUR Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, n...
CHARLTON HESTON The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and ther...
GIACOMO CASANOVA We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible ...
VOLTAIRE Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. Th...
BLACK ELK I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
AMBROSE BIERCE There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know
AMBROSE BIERCE Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it i...
JOHN LARDNER It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing.
DONNA TARTT In Britain, we have diverse cultural elements that converge in Shakespeare and in India, we find ele...
TIM SUPPLE I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his...
EDMUND BURKE All things return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is it which presides over t...
LAO TZU There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thou...
WILLIAM GODWIN The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in ...
CHAPMAN COHEN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
SAINT BASIL Impermanence and selflessness are not negative aspect of life, but the very foundation on which life...
THICH NHAT HANH Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a...
SAM CHILDERS We did well today. Nothing is perfect, but we have things to build off of.
DAMION MCINTOSH God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot with random peopl...
ANNIE DILLARD Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 Wherever we turn in the church of ...
FREDERICK W. FABER Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all h...
BIBLE I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for your...
VERONICA ROTH Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgements which people bring to bear upon t...
DONALD ROBERTSON I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly ...
RENE DESCARTES We're living on the top of a pyramid,' he had said, 'supported by the massive base, rising above it,...
KATE WILHELM The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.
SHASHI Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider, nothing is more pleasant, nothing...
THOMAS à KEMPIS The lesson of the tremendous days through which we are passing is that men cannot live upon the achi...
WALTER LIPPMANN All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which ...
PARACELSUS Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no...
EPICURUS The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is ea...
ALICE MUNRO PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should n...
AMBROSE BIERCE It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, wh...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
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STEVE VERNON If we are nothing, there is nothing at all to serve as a barrier to our boundless expression of love...
SHARON SALZBERG I have nothing against him. We're grown men. We talk about things ? good things and bad things. And ...
JUAN CASTRO The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothin...
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothin...
AUGUSTO BASTOS Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealt...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Practice emptiness to the extreme.
Keep stillness whole.
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MURIEL RUKEYSER Flowers are evil, because they live just to die for the love of other people. You don’t believe me...
WILL ADVISE Man cannot be 'the measure of all things'; for he himself was not aware when he came into being.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face...
KENNETH BRANAGH We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that ever...
KARL MARLANTES Do not expect anything in return from people, expect God’s blessings and better still, expect noth...
SUNDAY ADELAJA There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casu...
PATRICK KAVANAGH It’s just... everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be...
RAINBOW ROWELL There's nothing fun about things being palatable all the time.
BRENDAN GRUBB Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and all...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there ...
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Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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