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Zero, that is, Nothineness

Zero, that is, Nothineness. ‘The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish’. Alfred North Whitehead.

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Zero, that is, Nothineness

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  1. Zero, that is, Nothineness

  2. ‘The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish’.Alfred North Whitehead

  3. ‘It was absolute nothingness. It was a kind of formlessness without any definition…. True reasoning convinced me that I should wholly subtract all remnants of every kind of form if I wished to conceive the absolutely formless. I could not achieve this’.St. Augustine

  4. ‘Where there is the Infinite there is joy. There is no joy in the finite’. The Upanishad

  5. ‘Nothingness is being and being nothingness…. Our limited mind can not grasp or fathom this, for it joins infinity’.Azrael of Gerona

  6. ‘What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything’.Blaise Pascal

  7. ‘If we lift the veil and look underneath … we shall discover much emptiness, darkness, and confusion…. They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing’.Bishop Berkeley

  8. -1: It is ‘a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit—almost an amphibian between being and non-being’.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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