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• That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Secret, Principles

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.76, Vintage

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• It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more firmly, the finished righteousness of Christ. And what is the school in which he learns his nothingness, his poverty, his utter destitution? The school of deep and sanctified affliction. In no other school is it learned, and under no other teacher but God. Here his high thoughts are brought low, and the Lord alone is exalted.

  Octavius Winslow

  Teacher, School, Affliction

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• When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Baggage, Claims, Existence

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• Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Said, Happens

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• This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, "Speed Racer" is an excess of nothingness.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Fun, Gauges, Excess

  "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.

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• Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest field has within it the lively potential of everything in creation.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Tree, Fields, Creation

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• In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love Is, Fire, Order

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• We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.

  Eric Maisel

  Air, Choices, Infinite

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.21, Penguin

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• Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.

  Edgar Quinet

  Time, Peace, Flower

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• We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed?

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Enlightenment, Fades

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• Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Hallucinations, Illusion

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• Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, World

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• Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable.

  James Kelman

  Dirty, Air, Dust

  1989 A Disaffection.

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• We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perception

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• [The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed.

  Theodore Guerin

  Giving, Community, Trials

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• Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be

  John Frusciante

  Doe, Eternal

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• An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.

  Peter London

  Artist, Creative, Effort

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• Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

  Publilius Syrus

  Done, Prudence

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• I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Feminism, Pits

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.60, Anchor

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• I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

  Jane Blalock

  Golf, Peaceful, Feelings

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• Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and
  yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science
  and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and
  infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy,
  of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a
  zero – and an infinity.

  Charles Seife

  Zero, Powerful, Philosophy

  Charles Seife (2000). “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”, p.2, Penguin

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• We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust...
  The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.

  Rumi

  Stars, Dust, Circles

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• Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Historical, Events, Borders

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• Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

  Bruce Lee

  Defined

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sight, Offending, Names

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.2042, Bible Study Steps

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