Empty Space Quotes

• We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Existence
  • Advantages
  • Vessel

• Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Useful
  • Bowl
  • Empty Space

• William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.”

  

  Eliot Weinberger
  • Dream
  • Eye
  • Reached

• Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Humans
  • Empty Space
  • Settlements

• If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Planets
  • Empty Space
  • Suns

• If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Paint
  • Angels
  • Empty Space