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It is better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
--Anonymous

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
--James Keller

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
--Oscar Wilde

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
--Edward Young

N O T H I N G
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
--Horace

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
--François de La Rochefoucauld


We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility -- boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom.
--Charles S. Peirce, "Logic of Events" (1898)