Heinz R. Pagels Quotes

Nothing can come of nothing.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something - or Someone - beyond itself.

The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

I watched the night sky with it's countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how vast it must be, how I could never understand the infinite measure of its size.

Every something is an echo of nothing

I have created a new universe from nothing.

Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.

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

I can connect Nothing with nothing

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Nothingness haunts Being.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

Nothing comes out of nothing.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

There's no lack of void.

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.