"Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?"

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being."

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"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

Explore more quotes by Martin Heidegger

"But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history."

"As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself."

"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."

"The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being."

"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."

"Language is the house of the truth of Being."

"To dwell is to garden."

"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history."

"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."