De nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti=--From nothing is nothing, and nothing can be reduced to nothing.
This the Vulgate translated by "quia ex nihilo fecit illa Deus," and from the Vulgate the phrase "creation out of nothing" is derived.
Ex nihilo nihil fit, because having never known any physical product without a pre-existing physical material, we cannot, or think we cannot, imagine a creation out of nothing.
But such teaching could not reach even the majority of the more educated; and the Jewish dogma of creation ex nihilo became sacrosanct truth for the darkening world.
Thus, according to Brucker, Thales said, Ex nihilo fit nihil, since he said that water was eternal.
The same thing has been expressed as Pantheism or Spinozaism, which rests on the proposition ex nihilo fit nihil.
To English ears and understandings the sound comes naturally, and by long use irresistibly, as the representation of an ex nihilo creation.
Kimchi, in his endeavour to ascertain the shades of difference existing between the terms used in the Mosaic cosmogony, has assumed that our Hebrew verb barâ has the full signification of ex nihilo creavit.
But "Ex nihilo nihil" is a universal law of thought.
Ex nihilo nihil is a universal law of thought and of things.
The principle "ex nihilo nihil" forbids us to assume that motion can arise out of immobility, being out of non-being.
Ex nihilo nihil fit, because having never known any physical product without a pre-existing physical material, we can not, or think we can not, imagine a creation out of nothing.
But this Protean nothing, capable of appearing as something, is not the absolute, eternal, unchangeable nothing that we mean when we say ex nihilo nihil fit.
Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit We say that everything has a beginning.
I begin to doubt the principle ex nihilo nihil fit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nihilo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
