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

Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto: “I am a man and nothing human is foreign to me.”

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward