Martin Gardner Quotes

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?

Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.

Nothingness is the basis of everything.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

I’m cool with nothing cause even nothing is something

You can't have something without nothing.

And nothing is, but what is not.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

Nothingness haunts Being.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.