Meister Eckhart Quotes

Nothingness is the basis of everything.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

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

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

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.

Nothingness haunts Being.

But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being nothing.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

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

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

An intimate core of my being recognizes that there is nothing in me that can go on: there is no spark; there is no infestation of vaporous miasma that has the capacity to continue, and there is nothing in me that wishes to continue. This moment is, for me, all that there is, and I'm willing to accept it. I'm a worm; I have no soul.

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

I’m cool with nothing cause even nothing is something

We are not. We never were; we never shall be. We return to the void we never, for mehay is the center of all, and all is the center of nothing.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

And nothing is, but what is not.

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

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

Nothing is more real than nothing.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.