nihil
Example Sentences
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He once wrote, “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.”
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2016
This emergence of subjective feelings from physical stuff appears inconceivable and is at odds with a basic precept of physical thinking, the Ur-conservation law—ex nihilo nihil fit.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 1, 2014
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum: Of the dead say nothing unless it is kind.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2012
Attracted by her plan for saving scarce land and even scarcer money, the city sounded out the Vatican, received an immediate nihil obstat.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
