#nothin

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world. ↗

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. ↗

— James Buchan

#cause #classes #collapsing #devil #effect

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. ↗

— James Buchan

#any #bags #commerce #completed #course

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#good #itself #life #man #marriage

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#comes #compact #dark #expresses #frame

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#crushed #dangerous #evade #hope #law

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#government #nothing #oppressive #out #turns

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#indifference #nothing #religion

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#existence #lending #nothing #poetry #shadows

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself. ↗