Jonathan Edwards Quotes

Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the unmanifested.

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.

The square root of nothing.

I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.

If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?

Myth is the nothing that is all.

We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

I can connect Nothing with nothing

The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things - an intended pear does not nourish us. And yet I can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. And the same with the Void.

Every something is an echo of nothing