“But if nothing does as well as something about which nothing can be said, it vanishes.”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 173
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British academic philosopher 1944Related quotes
“There is something to be said for losing one’s possessions, after nothing can be done about it.”
Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 218
Context: There is something to be said for losing one’s possessions, after nothing can be done about it. I had loved my Nanking home and the little treasures it had contained, the lovely garden I had made, my life with friends and students. Well, that was over. I had nothing at all now except the old clothes I stood in. I should have felt sad, and I was quite shocked to realize that I did not feel sad at all. On the contrary, I had a lively sense of adventure merely at being alive and free, even of possessions. No one expected anything of me. I had no obligations, no duties, no tasks. I was nothing but a refugee, someone totally different from the busy young woman I had been. I did not even care that the manuscript of my novel was lost. Since everything else was gone, why not that?
“Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest.”
The Wrench (1978)
Context: Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.
“878. It's more paine to doe nothing then something.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The man's the work. Something does not come out of nothing.”
Hopper's answer to journalists -quoted by Avis Berman in 'Hopper, the Supreme American Realist of the 20th Century' Smithsonian Magazine June 2007
1941 - 1967
Section 2 : Religion
Life and Destiny (1913)