This is no better than trying to create it ex nihilo.

This is a mystical interpretation of the traditional doctrine of the creation ex nihilo.

While a minority with limited popular appeal, the Ustashe did not materialize ex nihilo.

Falsafah came to reject creation ex nihilo, so al-Kindi cannot really be described as a true Faylasuf.

The old maxim "nihil ex nihilo fit" is as true in commerce as in chemistry.

As he pointed out, neither creation ex nihilo nor emanation could be proven definitively by reason alone.

But having reached this conclusion, al-Kindi departed from Aristotle by adhering to the Koranic doctrine of creation ex nihilo.

The ancients had believed that nothing came from nothing but Heidegger reversed this maxim: ex nihilo omne qua ens fit.

Mystics, as we shall see, also found the notion of emanation more sympathetic than the doctrine of the creation ex nihilo.

Shakespeare borrowed the sentiment from the philosopher Parmenides, whose ex nihilo nihil fit argued against the possible existence of a void.

This made creation ex nihilo an official Christian doctrine for the first time, insisting that Christ was no mere creature or aeon.

Eventually everyone came to believe the whole thing was ex nihilo, spun from vapor to whole cloth, no more than a self-serving stunt.

Neither Origen nor Clement believed that God had created the world out of nothing ( ex nihilo), which would later become orthodox Christian doctrine.

The new doctrine of creation ex nihilo emphasised this view of the cosmos as quintessentially frail and utterly dependent upon God for being and life.

Say's formula were true, it would follow that the axiom, Ex nihilo nihil fit, is not true

Ex nihilo nihil fit.