John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve"
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Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"My soul is an empty carousel at sunset."
Taylor Swift
Singer, Songwriter
"I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town"
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled."
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"When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom."
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"the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being."
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"And empty words are evil."
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"The only good cage is an empty cage."
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"To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God."
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"A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere."
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"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."
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"True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away."
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"I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you"
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"My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure."
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"We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation."
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"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."
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"Places that are empty of you are empty of life."
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"Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself."
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"Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty."
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"The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it."
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"Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe."
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"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."
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"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
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"An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings."
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