“I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.”
Source: Wind from the Stars
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George MacDonald 127
Scottish journalist, novelist 1824–1905Related quotes
“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”
Mauvaises Pensées et Autres (1941)
Fragment 30
Variant translations:
The world, an entity out of everything, was created by neither gods nor men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and regularly becoming extinguished.
This world . . . ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measure going out.
That which always was,
and is, and will be everlasting fire,
the same for all, the cosmos,
made neither by god nor man,
replenishes in measure
as it burns away.
Translated by Brooks Haxton
Numbered fragments
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“All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.”
The Calmative (1946)
X, 6
Confessions (c. 397)