ex nihilo nihil fit
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I made the discovery that nothing takes longer in the saying than anything else, for as ex nihilo nihil fit, so from one polypus nothing any number of similar ones may be produced.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
The Sâṅkhya holds in the strictest sense that ex nihilo nihil fit.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
I begin to doubt the principle ex nihilo nihil fit.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel
But this Protean nothing, capable of appearing as something, is not the absolute, eternal, unchangeable nothing that we mean when we say ex nihilo nihil fit.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel
The old thought, well known in its scholastic formulation, ex nihilo nihil fit, in nihilum nihil potest reverti, is only another expression for the causal law as we have interpreted it above.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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