But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily, ...every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. Nothing is more real th...an nothing. They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God... is to speak of him as though he were a man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hard-working artist he needed rest, needed to ...escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »