Non-being is a philosophical concept that refers to the absence of existence or the lack of being. It is a term often used to describe the state of things that do not exist or are uncreated. The antonyms for non-being are existence, being, and reality. Existence means having a real, tangible presence in the world, while being refers to the state or fact of existing. Reality, on the other hand, refers to the actual existence of something, as opposed to an imagined or fictional concept. These antonyms highlight the opposite of non-being, emphasizing the importance of existence and reality in our lives.

What are the antonyms for Non-being?

• n.

  • nothing
  • something
  .
  • nothing/nothingness
  • capacity
  ,
  • fullness
  .

Famous quotes with Non-being

• Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

  Horace
• Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

  Paul Tillich
• All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

  Lao Tzu
• There is no point in asking the incarnated on their choice between existence and non-existence. Their answer will not be coming from the Truth, but from the accepted order of things. And the answer is always yes. For in prison and captivity such is the only response. There is no reason in asking the non-being, because the answer is always no. The truth lies in the view from a different perspective. And the truth is that the birth is repellent. It is the concentration of violence, hopelessness, suffering, and fatality. - Book of Consolation, 10.1-3

  Book of Consolation
• But it is better to assume principles less in number and finite, as Empedocles makes them to be. All philosophers... make principles to be contraries... (for Parmenides makes principles to be hot and cold, and these he demominates fire and earth) as those who introduce as principles the rare and the dense. But Democritus makes the principles to be the solid and the void; of which the former, he says, has the relation of being, and the latter of non-being. ...it is necessary that principles should be neither produced from each other, nor from other things; and that from these all things should be generated. But these requisites are inherent in the first contraries: for, because they are first, they are not from other things; and because they are contraries, they are not from each other.

  Aristotle

Related words & questions

Related words: nothing, nil, nothingness, no-thing, nothingness, not, negating being, not-being, negative being

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