Thomas Overbury Quotes

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

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

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises.

Being is born of not being.

There is no doing in the world without being first.

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

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

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Language is a living thing

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.

We were put on this earth to make things.

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.