Nought

How then can the idea of Nought be opposed to that of All?

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

"Nought," answered the Irishman cuttingly, and walked over to where Lord Andrew was arguing hotly with his brother.

The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century 1921

According to the research of morality plays, "the Fool appears as a character called" Nought "who is subject to derision because he plays no attention to [conventional] morality."

Astrological Musings 2010

[2] Again, a less violent inversion occurs in Dibden's Poor Jack — 'Nought's a hardship from Duty that springs', [3] that springs from duty — The more these are indulged in, the more will appear the strain and endeavour after rhime, and the appearance of any endeavour to accomplish that which is itself so secondary an object must be wrong; besides there is much truth in Wordsworth's preface where he says that he had tried to come near the language of Men, and the language of Men is not backwards!

Letter 94 2009

Whereat overjoyed in the last degree: -- "Nought," quoth the lady, "by what

The Decameron, Volume II Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

"Nought may endure but Mutability," wrote Shelley, joining an imposing line of English poets to have tackled this theme of perpetual change, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell and Wordsworth.

Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott Frances Leviston 2010

Nought else but the creative life in it — its power of asserting its own individuality

Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul 2008

Buddhists, who make God to be Nought, and who from that principle draw the further conclusion that self-annihilation is the means by which man becomes

Hegel on Buddhism 2007

Buddhism remains in the position ascribed in the Logic to the doctrine of "Becoming," whose "maxim" is that "Being is the passage into Nought, and Nought the passage into Being"

Hegel on Buddhism 2007

In a fit of literary pretension, I called the book Nought.

Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner 2008