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“De nihilo nihilum, et in nihilum nil posse gigni reverti.”
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Nishitani affirms Eckhart's intimations of a Godhead of Absolute Nothingness, even though he notes that this is “markedly distant from orthodox Christian faith,” which limits the concept of nothingness to the relative nothingness expressed in the nihilum of creatio ex nihilo, that is, to the absolute privation of being out of which the highest being creates lesser beings (NKC X, 75; Nishitani 1982, 66; also see NKC VII).
The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006
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God is a ˜nothingness™ (nihilum) whose real essence is unknown to all created beings, including the angels (447c).
John Scottus Eriugena Moran, Dermot 2004
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Fuerat enim vrbs valdè magna et populosa, nunc quasi ad nihilum est redacta: vix enim domus ibi remanserunt ducentæ, quarum etiam habitatores tenentur in maxime seruitute.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Tum etiam quia indignum est quod Christiani subdantur eisdem, propter abominationes eorum, et quia in nihilum redigitur cultus dei, et anim� pereunt, et corpora vltra quam credi possit multitudine affliguntur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Fuerat enim vrbs vald� magna et populosa, nunc quasi ad nihilum est redacta: vix enim domus ibi remanserunt ducent�, quarum etiam habitatores tenentur in maxime seruitute.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Uos sint salt eorthes thæt gif salt forworthes in thon gesælted bith to estis sal terrae quod si sal euanuerit in quo sallietur ad nowihte _vel_ nænihte mæge ofer thæt nihilum ualet ultra buta thæt gesended bith _vel_ geworpen út nisi ut mittatur foras and getreden bith from monnum et conculcetur ab hominibus gie aron _vel_ sint leht middangeardes
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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These primary particles were regarded by Anaxagoras as eternal; because he held the dogma, peculiar to all the Ionians, that nothing can be really created or annihilated (de nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti).
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The fundamental principle of his philosophy is the ancient maxim -- "_de nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil fosse reverti_;" but instead of employing this maxim in the sense in which it is used by Parmenides, Anaxagoras,
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"Gigni de nihilo nihil; in nihilum nil posse reverti," * are two propositions which the ancients never parted, and which people nowadays sometimes mistakenly disjoin, because they imagine that the propositions apply to objects as things in themselves, and that the former might be inimical to the dependence (even in respect of its substance also) of the world upon a supreme cause.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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