An indolent blonde, fond of dancing, but a nonentity from both the moral and the intellectual standpoints.
For man prefers to aspire to nonentity than not to aspire at all.
The third essay replies to the question as to the origin of the formidable power of the ascetic ideal, of the priest ideal, despite the fact that this ideal is essentially detrimental, that it is a will to nonentity and to decadence.
The knowledge of the unity and duality of God, and that of his containing the world in himself; is also as erroneous as the belief in the entity and nonentity of things.
Thus the world being a reflexion of the omnipresent Brahma, is neither an entity nor a nonentity of its own nature.
He was succeeded by a coalition of all the Whig factions, under the nominal premiership of Lord Wilmington, the greatest nonentity in the whole cabinet.
This vapid nonentity had the single merit of want of originality--he went on with Pitt's policy because he could devise no other.
It is the "Common Law" which our government took from English laws which makes a nonentity of a married woman, whose existence is wholly subject to another, and whose identity is only recognized through another.
In short, it spins for itself the further positive consideration of a nonentity {72} enveloping the being of its datum; and as that leads nowhere, back recoils the thought toward its datum again.
The notion of nonentity may thus be called the parent of the philosophic craving in its subtilest and profoundest sense.
But there is no natural bridge between nonentity and this particular datum, and the thought stands oscillating to and fro, wondering "Why was there anything but nonentity; why just this universal datum and not another?
Barry was not one of tyranny, nor was it a domination in the strict sense of that word; for she was a nonentity politically, without ideas or plans.
That there is no entity[521] contrary to the divine, because nonentity seems to be that which is wholly opposite to Him who supremely and always is.
I defy him to stand out long against the cast-iron nonentityof that village.
You shouldn't be wasted on mere nonentity if I held the threads.
You cease to be a nonentity at once and become a force.
There was an unpleasant story about her, somebody told me once," said one prettily-dressed nonentityto another, as they wandered slowly up and down the velvet lawns at Ranelagh.
On the other hand, absolutenonentity cannot mingle with existence.
When even a weak thing falls on something weak, it may still be relatively powerful; as is nonentity hitting nonentity.
I told him that his very words implied the refusal of his being to accept nonentity again; that they expressed, or adumbrated, the conception of an eternal consciousness of the eternal unconsciousness he imagined himself longing for.
But he could not pretend that he was glad to have been called out of nonentity into being, and that he could imagine nothing better than eternal unconsciousness.
Of course it is not nonentity in the same way that movement is nonentity; matter is nonentity really.
While remaining united with existence, we also conceive of nonentity (the one).
While separating ourselves from existence we by thought begetnonentity (matter).
Corporeity is nonentity because of lack of unity, iii.
So important is it for the soul to acquaint herself with what is in her, and to withdraw from what is outside of her; for existence is within us, and nonentity is outside of us.
What I mean is, if I marry a nonentity I shall be a nonentitymyself for ever.
Having ascertained that the permission to own a nonentity wasn't going to injure any of their parsnips, a small majority vote decided the momentous question in our favor.
She knew that she possessed no power; was a nonentity in the house; and though she bowed to her dependency, and had no resource but to bow to it, she did not like it brought palpably before her.
Between nonentity and being yawns the untraversable gulf of infinity.
Nonentity though he might be, she would have given much for a glimpse of his inner soul just then.
The Nonentity I "It is well known that those fight hardest who fight in vain," remarked Lord Ronald Prior complacently.
The body grew almost visibly; his very clothes hung on him differently; he was no longer a nonentity yawning beneath an ancient pedigree and title; he was an aggressive personality.
One day, while he was talking to Gozlan, one of his secretaries came in and told him that a particular bugbear of his, and a great nonentity to boot, had got the Cross of the Legion of Honour.
As usual, the one who was really the greatest nonentity among the latter was most lavish in his contempt.
