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“Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.”

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Book:The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

“I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.”

“One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.”

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Author:Willa Cather

“A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.”

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Author:Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

“Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.”

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Author:Epicurus

“Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”

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Author:Epicurus

“The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.”

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Book:Marges de la Philosophie

Source: Marges de la Philosophie

“The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.”

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Author:Epicurus

“The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.”

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Author:Dwight L. Moody

“The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, to the ear, or to the mind. Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.”

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Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg