“…the regions where there is only life, and therefore all that is not music is silence.”
The Hands of the Father
Unspoken Sermons, First Series (1867)
George MacDonald: Quotes about life
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“Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.”
From "Life" in Unspoken Sermons Series II (1886)
Context: "In the midst of life we are in death," said one; it is more true that in the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow — a word for that which cannot be — a negation, owing the very idea of itself to that which it would deny. But for life there could be no death. If God were not, there would not even be nothing. Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
Source: Phantastes
Phantastes (1858)
At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.
At the Back of the North Wind (1871)