nothing

Cockney Rhyming Slang

nothingness

Martin Heidegger

is absolutely the limit of nothingness, and so there can be less of nothing, for it would make nothing something and nothing.

What do you mean less than nothing' I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing' If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

Nothing can be created out of nothing. Lucretius

is that out of which nothing can come, and by the same token, nor can a thing go back to nothing.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. (Marcus Aurelius)

is a thing we should speak about only as though it were something.

For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.

is that from which something emerges by 'borrowing' its energy from the future and paying for it before the system notices that it is missing.

This is how, even in an empty region of space, a particle emerges out of Nothing, 'borrowing' its energy from the future and paying for it (with its annihilation) before the system notices this borrowing. (Zizek 'how to read lacan' 64)

is not only nothing... it is also our prison.

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.

is impossible. A good many people have been doing nothing for years.

Who says nothing is impossible? I've been doing nothing for years.

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