Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) American artist
Robert Motherwell, partly quoting Jean Arp, in Motherwell & black (1981) p. 94 -->
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“Void is contract made in fear.”
— Ludovico Ariosto, book Orlando Furioso
Fatto per timor, nullo è il contratto.
Canto XXI, stanza 43 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
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William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
Love is Enough (1872), Song I : Though the World Be A-Waning
Context: Love is enough: though the World be a-waning
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,
Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover
The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder,
Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder,
And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over,
Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter;
The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter
These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.
Frederick Franck (1909–2006) Dutch painter
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 63
“Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings.”
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777) French writer
La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.
During the French Revolution; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.
“An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.”
James Otis Jr. (1725–1783) Lawyer in colonial Massachusetts
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
“Fear first made gods in the world.”
Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.
Source: Thebaid, Book III, Line 661. These words also appear in a fragmentary poem attributed to Petronius (Fragm. 22. 1).
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Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.
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in [1, John, 4:18, KJV]
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Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Book No-Thing-ness
Context: Until you realise the true Way, whether in Buddhism or in common sense, you may think that things are correct and in order. However, if we look at things objectively, from the viewpoint of laws of the world, we see various doctrines departing from the true Way. Know well this spirit, and with forthrightness as the foundation and the true spirit as the Way. Enact strategy broadly, correctly and openly.
Then you will come to think of things in a wide sense and, taking the void as the Way, you will see the Way as void.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.